Frogs / Aristophanes ; edited with introduction and commentary by Kenneth Dover.

Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, for the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations...

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Main Author: Aristophanes
Other Authors: Dover, K. J. (Kenneth James), 1920-2010
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1993.
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