Aristophanes' "Esslesiazusae", written in the early 4th Century BC, marks a crossroads in his career. Post-dating the Peloponnesian War, it reflects a late change in his writing and a much changed society. This edition includes the complete text.
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Aristophanes' "Esslesiazusae", written in the early 4th Century BC, marks a crossroads in his career. Post-dating the Peloponnesian War, it reflects a late change in his writing and a much changed society. This edition includes the complete text.
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Add this copy of Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae Edited With Introduction to cart. $78.00, very good condition, Sold by Ancient World Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 1973 by Oxford Clarendon Press.
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Very Good+ in Very Good-dust jacket. 0198141912. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has minor chipping and a few tiny tears. DJ spine browned.; Extensive English Commentary and Introduction with Greek Text and Latin apparatus.; 308 pages; Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophonic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic.
