Aristophanes IV

From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

Aristophanes IV, edited and translated by Jeffrey Henderson.

The plays of this new Loeb Classical volume span what must have been the most "troubled times" of Aristophanes' life, for it was during this period that the collapse of the Athenian Empire occurred, Intellectuals willing to consider and satirize human folly experienced great fear and discouragement. Frogs, from the height of his powers, champions the disenfranchised and expresses a longing to retain elements of Athenian mora...

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