ARISTOPHANES Thesmophoriazusae

Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes' comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist Euripides is made to take part in a hilarious spoof on some of his own favourite plot lines, with his own life at stake as well as that of his loyal and much-put-upon old relative.
This edition offers a freshly constituted text making use of papyri published within the last few years, together with the first fully annotated English translation there has been of this play.

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 Critical Apparatus COMMENTARY

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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.