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The wasps / Aristophanes, translated by Douglass Parker. With sketches by Geraldine Sakall.
LIBRA PA3877 .V5 1962
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aristophanes.
- Series:
- Complete Greek comedy
- The Complete Greek comedy
- Standardized Title:
- Wasps. English
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Greek drama--Translations into English.
- Greek drama.
- Genre:
- Greek drama
- Comedy plays
- Translations
- Comedy plays.
- Physical Description:
- 130 pages illustrations 24 cm.
- 8vo.
- illustration
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press [1962]
- Summary:
- The Wasps is the fourth in chronological order of the eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes. It was produced at the Lenaia festival in 422 BC, during Athens' short-lived respite from the Peloponnesian War. As in his other early plays, Aristophanes satirizes the Athenian general and demagogue Cleon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Aristophanes. Wasps. English. Wasps.
- ISBN:
- 0856682128
- 9780856682124
- 0856682136
- 9780856682131
- OCLC:
- 840941
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