ARISTOPHANES Wasps

Wasps offers a new angle on the evergreen comic theme of the clash of generations and their life-styles, as a conventional if well-meaning son endeavours to keep control of his mercurial, mischievous father. The play also takes a highly critical look at the Athenian judicial system.

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.

260pp. (1983) cl 212 8 £35 / $59.99, pb 213 6 £16.50 / $28

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

SOME COMMENTS BY REVIEWERS

"...Wasps carries on the good work of his earlier volumes in this series." G & R
"...there is an eminently reliable and judicious text." "The commentary is similarly judicious." Classical Review
"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.