Aristophanes' Wasps /

• Main Author: Rothwell, Kenneth Sprague, 1955- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Series: Oxford Greek and Latin college commentaries
• Subjects: Αριστοφάνης > π. 450-π. 385; Αριστοφάνης > π. 450-π. 385 > Ερμηνεία και κριτική

Table of Contents:

• An overview of Wasps
• Cleon, politics, and the Peloponnesian War in 422 B.C.
• The jury system of the Athenian democracy
• Philocleon the juror
• The chorus of Wasps
• Social values in Wasps
• The culture of symposium society
• The comedy of Wasps
• The festivals of Dionysus at Athens and Aristophanic comedy
• Wasps in Aristophanes' career
• The structure of Wasps
• Stage, costume and performance
• The language of Aristophanes
• Word roots
• Abbreviations
• Commentary
• Appendix A: a glossary of grammatical and rhetorical terms
• Appendix B: legal procedure and language in classical Athens and Wasps
• Appendix C: the structure and meter of Wasps
• Appendix D: scansion of meters in Wasps.