Frogs

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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
Dionysus > (Greek deity) > Drama.
Voyages to the otherworld > Drama.
Playwriting > Drama.
Dramatists > Drama.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Aristophanes. II. Composition and Structure of the Play. III. The Contest of Aeschylus and Euripides. 1. The Issues. 2. Literary Criticism and Popular Culture. IV. Dionysos. V. Xanthias. VI. The Doorkeeper of the Underworld. VII. The Choruses. VIII. Politics. IX. History of the Text. 1. Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts. 2. Ancient Commentators. 3. Indirect Tradition. X. Production
  • Metrical Symbols
  • Sigla Codicum
  • Hypotheses
  • Dramatis Personae
  • Text
  • Commentary.

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