Clouds. Wasps. Peace

by Aristophanes

Book Overview

Aristophanes of Athens (ca. 446-386 BCE), 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0092IBFAK
• ISBN13: 9780674995376
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 0.5" x 0.7"