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Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae

Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae

Aristophanes
Sommerstein, Alan H.
Sommerstein, Alan H.

Paperback

Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts, Book 10

Miscellaneous LanguagesAncient GreecePlays

ISBN10: 0856687081
ISBN13: 9780856687082
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Dec 1 1998
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.68 Depth: 8.44
Language: English

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.]

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