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Aristophanes & Menander - Women in Power & Wealth & Malcontent & Woman from Samos
Aristophanes & Menander trans Kenneth McLeish &… Price: $12.50
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An essential book for students of Greek drama and literature
Aristophanes is widely regarded as one of Ancient Greece's foremost satirists - offering students of the period a unique insight into the world of Athens and its theatre
Written in the century following the defeat of Athens by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian War, these four plays signal a change of emphasis in stage comedy more appropriate to the new world order of the fourth century BC
This edition also provides full introductions, discussing the plays and placing them in their political & social context
Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society for which he wrote
