Aristophanes: Birds

Oxford: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1995. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 1/2". xvii, 782pp. First edition thus, with full number line indicating first printing. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. MIld wear to dust jacket, with gentle bumping to extremities. Bound in navy-gray buckram over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable first printing of Nan Dunbar's translation of Aristophanes' Birds.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This is the first comprehensive edition in any language of the Birds, a play generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces--both for its imaginative plot and for the charm and originality of its lyrics. The commentary gives generous help with the translation, for the less advanced student of Greek, and also with interpretation and the lyric meters, as well as fully discussing the staging. The introduction discusses the nature of the play; its historical and mythological background; the history of the text, including the contributions of ancient scholars recorded in the scholia, which are exceptionally important in this play; and also more recent scholarship. (Publisher).