Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Acharnians/Knights

Jeffrey Henderson

0/5 ( ratings)

Aristophanes of Athens , 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 ever written.

Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Pages: 408

Format: Hardcover

Release: September 01, 1998

ISBN 13: 9780674995673

Acharnians/Knights

Jeffrey Henderson

0/5 ( ratings)

Aristophanes of Athens , 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 ever written.

Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Pages: 408

Format: Hardcover

Release: September 01, 1998

ISBN 13: 9780674995673

More books from Jeffrey Henderson

Marcus Aurelius (Meditations, Speeches, Sayings, Note of the Christians)

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Birds

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?