The Loeb Classical Library: Frogs. Assemblywomen. Wealth

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The Loeb Classical Library: Frogs. Assemblywomen. WealthThe master of Old Comedy. Aristophanes of Athens, one of the worlds greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. The Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays is in four volumes. The Introduction to the edition is in Volume I. Also in the first volume is Acharnians, in which a

turns out not to be such a villain after all

This rich and challenging play ranges over the supreme myth of Oidipous and his doomed family

a lively conversation about the decline of oratory and education

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he continued to write

but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king

Born probably in 525 or 524 BC

This volume provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama

Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College

a final chapter on the reception of Augustus in later periods

Katerina Sarafoglou loses her mother when their home is destroyed by the Turkish army

The Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist