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Aristophanes: Acharnians. Knights. (Loeb Classical Library No. 178) Hardcover - 1998
by Aristophanes; Henderson, Jeffrey [Translator]
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- Title Aristophanes: Acharnians. Knights. (Loeb Classical Library No. 178)
- Author Aristophanes; Henderson, Jeffrey [Translator]
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language GRC
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1998-09-01
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0674995678
- ISBN 9780674995673 / 0674995678
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 6.73 x 4.77 x 0.81 in (17.09 x 12.12 x 2.06 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Mediterranean
- Library of Congress subjects Athens (Greece), Comedies
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97024063
- Dewey Decimal Code 882.01
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From the rear cover
Aristophanes of Athens (ca. 446-386 BC), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. He wrote at least forty plays, of which eleven have survived complete. In this new Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson presents a freshly edited Greek text and a lively, unexpurgated translation with full explanatory notes. In Acharnians a small landowner, tired of the Peloponnesian War, magically arranges a personal peace treaty and, borrowing a disguise from Euripides, demonstrates the injustice of the war in a contest with the bellicose Acharnians. Also in this volume is Knights, perhaps the most biting satire of a political figure (Cleon) ever written.