Frogs - Brossura

Aristophanes.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198150717 ISBN 13: 9780198150718

Casa editrice: New Publisher, 1997

Riassunto

Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. Sir Kenneth Dover's edition, with a full introduction and extensive commentary, has been the most comprehensive edition available, drawing together the relevant scholarship that had accumulated on the subject. The general purpose and character of the abridged version remains the same: to provide a helpful guide on a difficult author for students who wish to translate the play, or need to interpret it for performance. In this edition, nothing relevant to the performance of the play on stage has been sacrificed although information on manuscripts and discussion of the history of the text have been pared to a minimum, and arguments on controversial points have been abbreviated. Where relevant, conclusions reached in the original edition have been changed in the light of work done by others since 1993. The inclusion of a vocabulary should reduce the need for students to have recourse to a lexicon.

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Recensione:

The Commentary is admirably suited to being read alongside the text. The MSS are described in an Olympian treatment of the history of the text with a thoroughness not encountered before ... A commentary of characteristic brilliance. (A.M. Bowie, Queen's College, Oxford, The Classical Review, XLV, 2, '95)

L'autore:

Kenneth Dover is at University of St. Andrews. Kenneth Dover is at University of St Andrews.

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• Editore: New Publisher
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0198150717
• ISBN 13: 9780198150718
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 268