Rusten, Jeffrey; Henderson, Jeffrey; Konstan, David
Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts.
The Birth of Comedy brings together a wealth of information on the first three generations of Western comedy. The translations, presented in chronological order, are based on the universally praised scholarly edition in Greek, Poetae Comici Graeci, by R. Kassel and C. A....
Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in ...
