Lysistrata: A New Verse Translation - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299329846ISBN-10:299329844UPC:9780299329846Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, DramaBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Ancient, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:GreeceSize:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCP6MYRR3E
Lysistrata: A New Verse Translation
Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; eleven survive. The most famous of these is the whimsical fantasy Lysistrata. A perennial classroom and stage favorite as well as the basis of Spike Lee's Chi-Raq, the play is as relevant today as it was 2,500 years ago. The premise is simplicity...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299329846ISBN-10:299329844UPC:9780299329846Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, DramaBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, Ancient, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:GreeceSize:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCP6MYRR3E
David Mulroy is a professor emeritus of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. An accomplished and lauded translator of Greek drama, he has published English editions of The Complete Poetry of Catullus, Sophocles' Theban trilogy--Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus-- and the three plays that make up The Oresteia by Aeschylus--Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and The Holy...
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