Lysistrata

Author: Aristophanes, Henderson, Jeffrey

Literature & literary studies

Published on 1 March 2003 by Hackett Publishing Co, Inc in the United States.

This rollicking new translation of Aristophanes' comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric meters and free verse for the songs. Appended commentary essays--on Athenian democracy, ancient Greek warfare, Athenian women, and Greek Comedy--offer lively and informative discussions not only of Aristophanes, but of the broader fifth-century social, political, and cultural context as well.