{"product_id":"aristophanes-ecclesiazusae-paperback","title":"Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAristophanes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlan H. Sommerstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlan H. Sommerstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcclesiazusae\u003c\/i\u003e, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e. This edition attempts to set the play, more closely than has usually been done, against the political background at the time of its production, when Athens has just spurned what proved to be the last opportunity to escape from a war it did not have the resources to fight, and to define the details of staging as precisely as the text will allow. [Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham, and editor of a celebrated complete edition of Aristophanes volumes in the Aris \u0026amp; Phillips Classical Texts series. His many other publications include \u003ci\u003eAeschylean Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), an edition of \u003ci\u003eAeschylus Eumenides\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eGreek Drama and Dramatists\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and \u003ci\u003eSophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays\u003c\/i\u003e Volumes 1 and 2 (2006, 2011) in this series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.44 x 6.68 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47219784515833,"sku":"9780856687082","price":98.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/42XDNM-H3n9780856687082.webp?v=1768170232","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/aristophanes-ecclesiazusae-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}