Aristophanes: Lysistrata

Informationen zum Autor Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham, and editor of the celebrated complete edition of Aristophanes volumes in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series. His many other publications include Aeschylean Tragedy (1996), an edition of Aeschylus Eumenides (1989), Greek Drama and Dramatists (2002) and Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays Volumes 1 and 2 (2006, 2011) in this series. Klappentext Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War.Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War.

Product details

• Authors: Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein, Alan H. Aristophanes Sommerstein
• Assisted by: Alan H. Sommerstein (Editor)
• Publisher: Aris & Phillips
• Languages: Ancient Greek
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1990
• EAN: 9780856684586
• ISBN: 978-0-85668-458-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Classical Texts; Aris & Phillips Classical Texts; Aris & Phillips Classical Texts; Comedies of Aristophanes,
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies