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Produced in 405 BC, Frogs contains the earliest sustained piece of literary criticism in the Western tradition - the contest for the throne of tragedy between Euripides and Aeschylus. This edition is the first to combine a reliable English translation of Frogs with a full explanatory commentary; it also includes a freshly constituted Greek text.

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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
Preface
References and Abbreviations

Introduction
Select Bibliography
Aristophanes
Frogs
Note on the Text
Sigla

FROGS:
Dramatis Personae
Text and Translation

Commentary

Aristophanes Frogs

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      Publisher Aris & Phillips Ltd
      Published 1 January 1997
      ISBN-13 9780856686481
      978-0856686481
      ISBN-10 0856686484

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Produced in 405 BC, Frogs contains the earliest sustained piece of literary criticism in the Western tradition - the contest for the throne of tragedy between Euripides and Aeschylus. This edition is the first to combine a reliable English translation of Frogs with a full explanatory commentary; it also includes a freshly constituted Greek text.

      Trade 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
      Preface
      References and Abbreviations

      Introduction
      Select Bibliography
      Aristophanes
      Frogs
      Note on the Text
      Sigla

      FROGS:
      Dramatis Personae
      Text and Translation

      Commentary

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