Aristophanes: Frogs

by C. W. Marshall and C.W. Marshall

Book Overview

A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes' Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduction guides students through the play, its themes and contemporary contexts, and its reception history. Frogs offers sustained engagement with the Athenian literary scene, with the politics of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War, and with the religious understanding of the fifth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350080918
• ISBN13: 9781350080911
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 176 Pages