Aristophanes

Douglas Maurice MacDowell

This new paperback edition, aimed at sixth-form and first-degree students as well as professional scholars, includes an introduction, a revised text, an apparatus criticus based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts, and a full commentary, emphasising questions of performance and the play's outstanding comic and dramatic qualities.

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The Law in Classical Athens

Professor of Greek Douglas M MacDowell

This book provides an accessible introduction to each of Aristophanes' plays, focusing particularly on their relationship to Athenian politics and life, and to the effect that Aristophanes hoped to have on his audience. All passages quoted from them are given in new verse translations, and readers do not need any knowledge of Greek. But scholarly problems are not ignored, and specialists will find here both new suggestions and summaries of different interpretations with recent bibliographical information in the notes.

Douglas Maurice MacDowell

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