Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856685593 ISBN 13: 9780856685590

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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 loyal and much-put-upon old relative.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan H Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director of the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham; editor of the Aristophanes volumes in the Aris Phillips Classical Texts series and of Aeschylus Eumenides (Cambridge, 1989); author of Aeschylean Tragedy (Bari,
1996) and of Greek Drama and Dramatists (London, 2002); co-editor of Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis (Bari, 1993), Shards from Kolonos: Studies in Sophoclean Fragments (Bari, forthcoming) and several other multi-author volumes. He is coordinating a collaborative edition of selected fragmentary plays
of Sophocles for this series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0856685593
• ISBN 13: 9780856685590
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278