Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae (Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Paperback, Reprinted with corrections 2007. Reprinted 2015.)

Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic. This edition attempts to set the play, more closely than has usually been done, against the political background at the time of its production, when Athens has just spurned what proved to be the last opportunity to escape from a war it did not have the resources to fight, and to define the details of staging as precisely as the text will allow. [Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.]

General

Imprint:	Aris & Phillips
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Release date:	December 1998
First published:	1998
Authors:	Aristophanes
Editors:	Alan H. Sommerstein
Dimensions:	210 x 147 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	264
Edition:	Reprinted with corrections 2007. Reprinted 2015.
ISBN-13:	978-0-85668-708-2
Languages:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-85668-708-1
Barcode:	9780856687082

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