Aristorphanes Frogs

Clarendon Press Oxford, 1993. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Very good dust jacket has scuffs. 8co. (5.69 x 1.21 x 8.75 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes a list of abbreviations, metrical symbols, Sigla Codicum, Hypotheses, Dramatic Personae, addenda, bibliography and indexes. 414 pp.

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ISBN: 9780198147732

Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on Classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, and the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations which were inadequate and inaccurate. At the same time, its most problematic passages have been the subject, in recent years, of more scholarly articles than those of any other Greek play. In this introduction, edition, and commentary, Sir Kenneth Dover presents the relevant data, arguments, and considerations as fully as can reasonably be done in one volume.

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