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Book SynopsisAristophanes has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. In
Acharnians a small landowner, tired of the Peloponnesian War, magically arranges a personal peace treaty; and
Knights, perhaps the most biting satire of a political figure (Cleon) ever written.
Trade ReviewHenderson’s sound texts and plain translations give us exactly the Aristophanes we need: a reliable prose waiting to be quickened into poetic life by the reader’s imagination, laughter, and amazement. -- Donald Lyons * New Criterion *
Henderson, who may fairly be considered the leading Aristophanic scholar in North America, has now…provided us with both a useful text and idiomatic…translation. It is certainly a work that scholars may use with confidence and may recommend to their students. -- Ian C. Storey * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
It is accordingly a pleasure to note the appearance of the first of what will be four new Loeb volumes of Aristophanes…this is an important edition of a major Greek author and an absolute ‘must-buy’ for all college and university libraries. -- S. Douglas Olson * Classical World *
Henderson’s translation keeps close to the Greek, but successfully manages to indicate something of Aristophanes’ linguistic diversity; it has been carried off with admirable crispness… A highly welcome addition to the Loeb Library. -- Stephen Halliwell * Greece and Rome *
