Aristophanes: Knights

by Alan H. Sommerstein (Editor)

Overview

In the first play he produced on his own behalf, Aristophanes launched a violent attack on Cleon, the leading politician of the day, on the whole style of leadership that he represented and on a system which seemed to guarantee that a bad leader could be displaced by a worse. Text with facing translation, commentary and notes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780856681783
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	12/01/1981
Series:	Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
Edition description:	Reprinted with Update 1996, Reprinted 2015. ed.
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham, and editor of the celebrated complete edition of Aristophanes volumes in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series. His many other publications include Aeschylean Tragedy (1996), an edition of Aeschylus Eumenides (1989), Greek Drama and Dramatists (2002) and Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays Volumes 1 and 2 (2006, 2011) in this series.

Editorial Reviews

Especially admirable is the syllabic and metrical approximation of the choral passages"

1997 - N.E.xl.N.