Aristophanes Lysistrata
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Aristophanes Lysistrata
（Clarendon paperbacks）
Clarendon Press, 1990
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Lysistrata
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Lysistrata and the events of 411
- The character of the play
- Dramatis personae
- Production
- The Spartan dialect
- The history of the text
- Notes on lyric analyses
- Sigla
- Hypotheses
- Dramatis personae
- Text
- Commentary
- Indexes
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