1904 The Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes, in Both English and Greek

Description: The Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes, Acted at Athens in the Year B.C. 410, The Greek Text Revised, with a Free Translation into English Verse Introduction and Commentary by Benjamin Bickley Rogers, M.A., George Bell & Sons, London, 1904, 229pp, cloth, 7 x 9", 8vo Fair condition. Wear and staining to front and rear boards. Tips are bumped with exposed boards. Wear to spine, but title in gilt is still legible. Spine is beginning to crack. Due to a printing error, many pages were not cut along at least one of their fore edges. It appears that a previous owner attempted to separate some of the pages, evidenced by tearing along fore edge(s). Toning and age-staining throughout textblock. Please see photos. Thesmophoriazusae, or Women at the Thesmophoria (sometimes also called The Poet and the Women), is one of eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes. It was first produced in 411 BC, probably at the City Dionysia. The play's focuses include the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society; the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon; and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus. The work is also notable for Aristophanes's free adaptation of key structural elements of Old Comedy and for the absence of the anti-populist and anti-war comments that pepper his earlier work. This play has been considered one of Aristophanes's most brilliant parodies of Athenian society. This volume includes both English and original Greek text. FORN-MSB-0324-TUB0015-JC352

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