CONTENTS
Preface
References and Abbreviations
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
PARALLEL GREEK TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Commentary
Addenda to previous volumes
Indexes
This volume is the first edition with commentary since 1907 of Aristophanes' last surviving play, in which, as so often before, an audacious and imaginative hero finds a miraculous remedy for the all-too-real ills of the contemporary world in this case the concentration of wealth in the hands of those who don't deserve it at the expense of those who do. To achieve this he needs the aid of no less than three gods, and the play contains the fullest single surviving account of a visit to a sanctuary of the healing god Asclepius.
This volume includes the ADDENDA to all previous plays, but the INDEXES proved far more extensive than anticipated and will now be published as a separate volume 12 to complete the Aristophanes series.
Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director of the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham, editor of the Aristophanes volumes in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series (198098) and of Aeschylus Eumenides (Cambridge, 1989); author of Aeschylean Tragedy (Bari, 1996) and of Guide to Greek Drama (London, forthcoming); co-editor of Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis (Bari, 1993), Shards from Kolonos: Studies in Sophoclean Fragments (Bari, forthcoming) and several other multi-author volumes.
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SOME COMMENTS BY REVIEWERS
Alan Sommerstein's edition of Wealth is the
first full-length commentary of the play to be published since
Rogers' edition of 1907 ... S provides a reliable, accurate translation
... This commentary contains information on virtually every aspect
of the play, and for that reason alone many readers will want
to own a copy of the book ... Many readers will welcome the extensive
addenda and corrigenda to the ten previous volumes of the series
... The quality, range and usefulness of the addenda are self
evident ... S's edition marks the successful conclusion of a major
project. The first volume of this series appeared in 1980. In
that volume he expressed his desire to do what he could "to
help others to enjoy" Aristophanes. With publication of
Wealth S has effectively reached that goal. He has introduced
a generation of readers to the world and humour of a great Athenian.
He has along the way made an enduring contribution to Aristophanic
studies. Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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