Aristophanes: Clouds
Alan H Sommerstein
(Translated by)Description
Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly punished by the agents of the gods whom he refuses to recognise. This third edition was published in 1991, and has been reprinted in 2007 with addenda and a new bibliography. [Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.]
Product Details
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
| Publish Date | January 01, 1982 |
| Pages | 274 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780856682094 |
| Dimensions | N/A |
About the Author
Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham, and editor of a celebrated complete edition of Aristophanes volumes in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series. His many other publications include 'Aeschylean Tragedy' (1996), an edition of 'Aeschylus Eumenides' (1989), 'Greek Drama and Dramatists' (2002) and 'Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays' Volumes 1 and 2 (2006, 2011) in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series.
Reviews
'For an overall series of the entire corpus, including critical text, commentary, translation, and full introduction, all subsumed to one man's intelligent analysis and wide-ranging scholarship, Sommerstein stands triumphantly alone. [...] Aristophanes is lucky to have so devoted, erudite, and witty a modern celebrant.'
Scholia
'Sommerstein has exercised throughout the refreshing independence of judgement, backed by learning.'
JACT
'This work is a fine and unpretentious introduction to Aristophanic comedy.'
Journal of Hellenic Studies
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