Birds
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Birds
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1995
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Aristophanes Birds
Ορνιθεσ
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Greek text and English commentary
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This comprehensive edition of "Birds" aims to enable the reader, including the less-advanced student of Greek, to understand, interpret and enjoy the play. It is a play generally recognized as one of Aristophanes's masterpieces - both for its imaginative plot and for the charm and originality of its lyrics. The commentary gives help with the translation to cater for the less-advanced student of Greek, and also with interpretation and the lyric metres, as well as fully discussing the staging. It uses the resources of modern ornithology to elucidate Aristophanes's reference to birds. The introduction discusses the nature of the play: its historical and mythological background; the history of the text, including the contributions of ancient scholars recorded in the scholia, which are exceptionally important in this play; and also more recent scholarship.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The character of the play: historical background
- the plot - mythological sources, plot-sources
- Peisetairos and the Olympians. Part 2 Production. Part 3 The history of the text: manuscripts - ancient, medieval
- ancient, Byzantine and early-modern scholarship
- notes on lyric analyses
- sigla
- hypotehese
- dramatis personae.
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