The Acharnians of Aristophanes : Edited from the MSS. and Other Original Sources by Richard Thomas Elliott, M.A.
by Aristophanes; edited by Richard Thomas Elliott
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good- with no dust jacket
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1914. Hardcover. 6mm tear to cloth along top of spine. Bookseller's ticket, B. H. Blackwell, Oxford. ; xliii, [1], 241, [1], [2 (blank)] pages. Blue-green cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule and publisher's emblem on spine. Page dimensions: 226 x 141mm. Greek text of Aristophanes' play "The Acharnians". Introduction in English. Footnotes (critical apparatus) in Latin. Endnotes in English. "The Peloponnesian War was already into its sixth year when The Acharnians was produced. The Spartans and their allies had been invading Attica every year, burning, looting and vandalizing farm property with unusual ferocity in order to provoke the Athenians into a land battle that they couldn't win." - Wikipedia entry on 'The Acharnians', accessed January 2023. .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24496
- Title
- The Acharnians of Aristophanes : Edited from the MSS. and Other Original Sources by Richard Thomas Elliott, M.A.
- Author
- Aristophanes; edited by Richard Thomas Elliott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1914
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