Aristophanes

Ecclesiazusae

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ID23531253
AuthorsAristophanes Aristophanes
EditorsAlan H Sommerstein
Year1998
Pages242
Publication date1998-01-12
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEcclesiazusae (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3828/liverpool/9780856687075.001.0001
OpenAlexW4249888502
Open LibraryOL16996043M
ISBN9780856687075
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited1

Ecclesiazusae , probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic. This edition attempts to set the play, more closely than has usually been done, against the political background at the time of its production, when Athens has just spurned what proved to be the last opportunity to escape from a war it did not have the resources to fight, and to define the details of staging as precisely as the text will allow. This edition presents the Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.

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