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Aristophanes: Peace : Greek text with Introduction and Commentary - Aristophanes .

Aristophanes: Peace

Greek text with Introduction and Commentary

By: Aristophanes ., S. Douglas Olson (Editor)

Hardcover | 3 December 1998

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Aristophanes' Peace was performed at the City Dionysia in Athens in 421 B.C. as a decade-long war with Sparta seemed finally to be drawing to an end, and is one of only eleven extant plays by the greatest Old Comic poet. Olson's edition of the play, which replaces Platnauer's of 1969, is based on a complete new collation of the manuscripts, many of which have never been adequately reported before. The extensive commentary explores matters of all sorts, but it focuses in particular on the realities of daily life in classical Athens and also examines the practical problems of staging. The substantial introduction includes essays on Aristophanes' early career, the politics of the Greek world in the late 420s, and the poet's theology.
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`O.'s commentary, while it shows fine all-round scholarship, ... is particularly strong on economic and social matters' Alan Sommerstein, Journal of Hellenic Studies `This edition will prompt fresh interest in a play that has been comparatively neglected - undestervedly, as it now seems.' Jeffrey Henderson, Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.3. `the Greek text is masterfully edited and for the first time based on a complete recension of the manuscripts; the comentary is richly informative on everything from the play's dramatic form and technique to its social and policital contexts.' Jeffrey Henderson, Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.3.

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