Aristophanes: Acharnians

• Paperback | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• The earliest comic drama to survive, Acharnians is a highly committed play, its message being that Athens war with the Peloponnesians can and should b... Lees meer

Aristophanes: Indexes to the Plays

Aristophanes

• Paperback | Engels | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• This volume completes the twelve-volume series The Comedies of Aristophanes, begun in 1980, and is comprised of comprehensive indexes to the preceding... Lees meer

Aeschylean Tragedy

Alan H Sommerstein

• Paperback | Engels
• Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art-forms. In this completely revised and updated edition of his book A... Lees meer

Aristophanes: Knights

Aristophanes

• Paperback | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• Knights was the first play to be produced by Aristophanes on his own behalf. In it, he launched a violent attack on Cleon, the leading politician of t... Lees meer

Oath and State in Ancient Greece

Alan H Sommerstein, Andrew James Bayliss

• Hardcover | Engels | Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde | nr. 306
• The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial ... Lees meer

The Birds and Other Plays

Aristophanes

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Classics
• Five comedies from Ancient Greece that freely blend satire and slapstick Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Bir... Lees meer

The Tangled Ways of Zeus

Alan H Sommerstein

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Tangled Ways of Zeus is a collection of studies written over the last twenty years by the distinguished classicist Alan Sommerstein about various ... Lees meer

Aristophanes: Clouds

• Paperback | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philos... Lees meer

Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays

• Paperback | Engels | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• Following the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present seven mo... Lees meer

Aristophanes

Aristophanes

• Paperback | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• Produced in 421 B.C., Peace is, in one respect, unique among Aristophanes' plays. The typical Aristophanic plot takes its start from something that is... Lees meer

Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece

Alan H Sommerstein, Isabelle C Torrance

• Hardcover | Engels | Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde | nr. 307
• The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial ... Lees meer

Aristophanes: Wasps

Aristophanes

• Paperback | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• Wasps was first produced at the Lenaea festival of 422 BC. The play is at once a political satire and also, like Clouds and the lost Banqueters , a co... Lees meer

Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae

• Paperback | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes' comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist E... Lees meer

Aristophanes: Wealth

Aristophanes

• Paperback | Engels | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• This volume is the first edition with commentary since 1907 of Aristophanes' last surviving play, in which, as so often before, an audacious and imagi... Lees meer

Aeschylus

Alan H Sommerstein

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Many of the themes of Aeschylus' Suppliants - the treatment of refugees, forced marriage, ethnic and cultural clashes, decisions on war and peace, pol... Lees meer

Menander: Epitrepontes

Alan H Sommerstein

• Paperback | Engels | Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
• This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander's comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration) , arguably the most exquisite... Lees meer

The Persians and Other Plays

Aeschylus

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Classics
• Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians , th... Lees meer

Aristophanes: Birds

Aristophanes

• Paperback | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• Birds was produced at the City Dionysia in the spring of 414 BC. It differs from all the other fifth-century plays of Aristophanes that survive in hav... Lees meer

Aristophanes: Indexes to the Plays

Aristophanes

• Hardcover | Engels | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• This volume completes the twelve-volume series The Comedies of Aristophanes, begun in 1980, and is comprised of comprehensive indexes to the preceding... Lees meer

Talking about Laughter

Alan H Sommerstein

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appe... Lees meer

Menander: Epitrepontes

Alan H Sommerstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
• This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander's comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration) , arguably the most exquisite... Lees meer

Greek Drama and Dramatists

Alan H Sommerstein

• Paperback | Engels
• The history of European drama began at the festivals of Dionysus in ancient Athens, where tragedy, satyr-drama and comedy were performed. Understandin... Lees meer

Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume 2

• Hardcover | Engels | Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
• Following the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present seven mo... Lees meer

Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides

Aeschylus

• Hardcover | Engels | Loeb Classical Library
• Aeschylus (ca. 525–456 BC) is the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world’s great art forms. Seven of his eighty or so plays survive comp... Lees meer