Böcker av Aristophanes

This mixture of social and political satire, bawdy with passages of lyrical beauty, offers an insight into ancient Athens and its theatre. McLeish also has translated the plays of Sophocles and Aeschylus.

This is an abridgement of Nan Dunbar's 1995 Oxford edition of Birds, one of Aristophanes' masterpieces (and the source of the word 'Cloudcuckooland'). The introduction and notes retain all the material designed to help the less advanced student of Greek to understand, interpret, and enjoy the play. Aristophanes' references to birds are elucidated in the light of modern ornithological knowledge.

This work contains a commentary on one of the most famous comedies from Ancient Greece, Aristophanes' "Frogs", as well as the complete Greek text. It also features a comprehensive introduction, and offers help with translation.

A volume in the acclaimed Penn Greek Drama Series containing Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, and The Sexual Congress.

In this edition of one of the masterpieces of Athenian Old Comedy, Olson offers an introduction, a text based on a collation of the manuscripts, and a massive literary and historical commentary. All the Greek in the introduction and commentary not cited for technical reasons is translated, making much of the edition accessible to non-specialists.