Three Comedies (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) - Softcover

Aristophanes, .

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472061534 ISBN 13: 9780472061532

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 1969

Synopsis

Contains The Birds, The Clouds, and The Wasps

About this title

About the Author:

Douglass Parker (1927-2011) was Professor of Classics, University of Texas, Austin, where he taught for more than forty years. Both a Guggenheim Fellow and a finalist for the National Book Award for Translation for his The Congresswomen (Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae, University of Michigan Press), he was described in one of his own syllabi as "rarely [thinking] of himself as an academic, but rather as an itinerant trombonist who took a wrong turn about 1946." His and Deena Berg's Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies is also published by Hackett.

Timothy J. Moore is John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis.

Review:

"Arrowsmith is that rare animal—a creative translator: there is only one born in each generation . . . who can transplant his original blood, bone, and sinew. Arrowsmith is such a translator and we are all in his debt."
—Lawrence Durrell
(Lawrence Durrell 1999-04-01)

"Richmond Lattimore is the foremost translator of Greek writing in English. In fact he is better than that; many 'foremost translators' have not been nearly so good."
—G. E. Dimock, Jr., Hudson Review
(G. E. Dimock, Jr. Hudson Review 1999-04-01)

"As [Douglass Parker] proved in The Acharnians, he has a range that can encompass the gravity of Aristophanes as well as the delirious and scabrous wit."
—Dudley Fitts, New York Times
(Dudley Fitts New York Times 1999-04-01)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0472061534
• ISBN 13: 9780472061532
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Arrowsmith William