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Ecclesiazusae 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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‘All in all, this book is a great source of knowledge and will be very helpful for anyone who studies Ecclesiazusae.’
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‘For an overall series of the entire corpus, including critical text, commentary, translation, and full introduction, all subsumed to one man’s intelligent analysis and wide-ranging scholarship, Sommerstein stands triumphantly alone. […] Aristophanes is lucky to have so devoted, erudite, and witty a modern celebrant.’
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Table of Contents
Addenda 2007
Updated General Bibliography
Preface
References and Abbreviations
Introduction
Bibliography to Ecclesiazusae
Note on the Text
Sigla
Text and Translation
Commentary

Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae

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    A Paperback / softback by Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein

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      Publisher Aris & Phillips Ltd
      Published 1 December 1998
      ISBN-13 9780856687082
      978-0856687082
      ISBN-10 0856687081

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Ecclesiazusae 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.

      Trade Review
      ‘All in all, this book is a great source of knowledge and will be very helpful for anyone who studies Ecclesiazusae.’
      Classical Review
      ‘For an overall series of the entire corpus, including critical text, commentary, translation, and full introduction, all subsumed to one man’s intelligent analysis and wide-ranging scholarship, Sommerstein stands triumphantly alone. […] Aristophanes is lucky to have so devoted, erudite, and witty a modern celebrant.’
      Scholia

      Table of Contents
      Addenda 2007
      Updated General Bibliography
      Preface
      References and Abbreviations
      Introduction
      Bibliography to Ecclesiazusae
      Note on the Text
      Sigla
      Text and Translation
      Commentary

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