Thesmophoriazusae
by Aristophanes
"Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes' comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist Euripides is made to take part in a hilarious spoof on some of his own favourite plot lines, with his own life at stake as well as that of his own loyal and much-put-upon old relative. This edition offers a freshly constituted text making use of papyri published within the last few years, together with the first fully annotated English translation…
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- Full title :Thesmophoriazusae / edited with translation and notes by Alan H. Sommerstein.
Summary
"Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes' comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist Euripides is made to take part in a hilarious spoof on some of his own favourite plot lines, with his own life at stake as well as that of his own loyal and much-put-upon old relative. This edition offers a freshly constituted text making use of papyri published within the last few years, together with the first fully annotated English translation there has been of this play."--Jacket
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- Publication Date:©1994.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Aris & Phillips
- Place of Publication:Warminster, Wiltshire, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1994.
Notes
Greek text, parallel English translation; notes in English.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 242 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0856685585, 9780856685583, 0856685593, 9780856685590
- oclc:ocm31070777
- LC Classification:PA3877
- Dewey Decimal:882.01
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