Aristophanes Lysistrata - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198144962 ISBN 13: 9780198144960

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1990

Synopsis

The first new edition in almost sixty years, this volume of Aristophanes' Lysistrata brings the play completely up to date with modern scholarship. It provides the first complete account of its history and contains new information about the comic theater and its social and political context. Lysistrata not only brims with topical references to social life, religion, and politics in classical Athens; it is also one of our best sources for information on the life of women in antiquity, offering a unique glimpse of their everyday life.

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Review:

`This is a very satisfying work, fully alert to matters linguistic, epigraphic, paratragic, and so forth, and provided with an extremely good index (the sub-headings ... will be very useful).'Greece and Rome

`This is an excellent book (both in contents and layout), and a much needed one...Henderson has rendered a signal service in increasing understanding of this comic masterpiece.'Choice

`well worthy of OUP's outstanding series ... this method of study would give a keen sixth-form or undergraduate student, with or without a knowledge of the language, a balanced and well-rounded knowledge of the play and its context ... An edition of Lysistrata which meets all criteria of scholarship has been long overdue and Henderson satisfies on all counts. The commentary is very detailed and painstakingly researched.' Peter Hartley, JACT Review

H. offers attention to many aspects of language, vase paintings, structural features, and the significance and general comic use of metres...offers the first full report of all the MSS and testimonial sources...provides persuasive attributions of speeches. (The Journal of Hellenic Studies 113)

Synopsis:

In addition to its many topical references to social life, religion, and politics in classical Athens, the Lysistrata is one of our best sources for the life of women in antiquity: unlike epic, tragedy, and oratory, Attic comedy draws its characters and plots from everyday life and provides a unique glimpse into the situation of everyday Athenians. Henderson's standard edition of Aristophanes' play provides much new evidence for those working on anthropological and sociological aspects of Athens, as well as those working in traditional philological fields. The text is brought fully up to date with the advances made in Aristophanic scholarship over the past sixty years. In particular, it is the first to report all the manuscripts, papyri, and testimonial sources of the text, offering a new account of its history and a detailed review of the transmission of the Aristophanic corpus as a whole. Henderson's text and apparatus criticus is supplemented by a full Introduction giving details of the background to the play, its content, staging, philological interest, the textual transmission, and by a detailed Commentary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0198144962
• ISBN 13: 9780198144960
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312