Description
Book SynopsisEcclesiazusae is a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, and the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition. This edition, with facing translation and commentary, sets the play in its political context, and defines the details of staging as precisely as the text will allow.
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ScholiaTable of ContentsAddenda 2007
Updated General Bibliography
Preface
References and Abbreviations
Introduction
Bibliography to
Ecclesiazusae Note on the Text
Sigla
Text and Translation
Commentary
