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First produced in 422 BC, Wasps is at once a political satire and also, like Clouds and the lost Banqueters, a comedy on the theme of the conflict of generations. First published in 1983, this edition contains addenda and a new bibliography. Greek text with facing English translation, commentary and notes.

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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
WASPS
Introductory Note
Note on the Text
Sigla
Addenda including Bibliography
Text and Translation
Notes

Aristophanes Wasps

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    A Paperback / softback by Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/12/1983
      ISBN13: 9780856682131, 978-0856682131
      ISBN10: 0856682136

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      First produced in 422 BC, Wasps is at once a political satire and also, like Clouds and the lost Banqueters, a comedy on the theme of the conflict of generations. First published in 1983, this edition contains addenda and a new bibliography. Greek text with facing English translation, commentary and notes.

      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
      WASPS
      Introductory Note
      Note on the Text
      Sigla
      Addenda including Bibliography
      Text and Translation
      Notes

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