Aristophanes (English, Aristophanes | Alan H. Sommerstein | Alan H. Sommerstein)

About the Book

Birds was produced at the City Dionysia in the spring of 414 BC. It differs from all the other fifth-century plays of Aristophanes that survive in having no strong and obvious connection with a topical question of public interest, whether political (like Acharnians , Knights , Wasps , Peace and Lysistrata ), literary-theatrical (like Thesmophoriazusae and Frogs ), or intellectual-educational (like Clouds ). It has, indeed, in its own way, plenty…

ISBN: 9780856682889