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Read the play clouds yourself instead, this guys basically tells you every part of the plot with some smart remarks (and I assume that’s what he’s gonna do for the rest of the book and other plays)
Last semester I took a class on Aristophanes' Frogs, and during that class we read (but only translate the Frogs, obviously) over the semester all of Aristophanes' works except for the Peace, Assemblywomen (which I had read before), Knights, and Birds. It was very interesting to hear what Strauss had to say about Aristophanes after having heard what my own, obviously non-Straussian, professor said. The question of interpreting Aristophanes as Strauss did is still on my mind, but I think that the...