ARISTOPHANES Peace

In Peace, produced in 421 B.C., Aristophanes celebrates in anticipation the conclusion, after ten years, of the great war with Sparta. Peace, we are made to see, is within the grasp of the Greek peoples; let them make one final effort, and all difficulties and dangers will evaporate in the joys of feasting and rustic leisure.

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director of the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham, editor of the Arisophanes volumes in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series (1980­96) and of Aeschylus Eumenides (Cambridge, 1989); author of Aeschylean Tragedy (Bari, 1996); co-editor of Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis (Bari, 1993) and several other multi-author volumes.

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CONTENTS Preface References and Abbreviations INTRODUCTION Select Bibliography Note on the Text Sigla PARALLEL GREEK TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION NOTES

SOME COMMENTS BY REVIEWERS
"This present volume, the fifth to appear of his complete edition with translation of Aristophanes, maintains the high standard of the earlier volumes..." Classical Review
"...Sommerstein's edition performs a valuable service, particularly to those with intelligence but little Greek, and the parallel publication of the plays will be eagerly awaited." G & R
"Libraries that own the Loeb parallel text series should purchase the entire set of Aristophanic comedies." Choice

RELATED BOOKS
See under ARISTOPHANES in this series. The final volume WEALTH will include the INDEXES to all the volumes of Aristophanes' plays and is expected sometime in the year 2001.