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(J.) Henderson Ed. Aristophanes: essays in interpretation. By L. Edmunds [and others]. (Yale classical studies, 26.) Cambridge etc.: University Press. 1980 (1981). Pp. viii + 237. £15.00. - Aristophanes. The comedies. 1. Acharnians. Ed. and trans. (A. H.) Sommerstein. Warminster: Aris and Phillips. 1980. Pp. viii + 215. £ 10.00/$29.00 (bound), £5.00/$14.50 (paper). - (J. E.) Stefanis ῾Οδοῦλος στίς κωμωδίες τοῦ ᾿Αριστοφάνη ὁ ρόλος του καί ἡ μορφή του. (᾿Επιστημονική ἐπετηρίδα φιλοσοφικῆς σχολῆς (᾿Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, παράρτημα,, 29.) Thessaloniki: University. 1980. Pp. 221. Price not stated. - (C. A.) Michael. Ὁ κωμικὸς λόγος τοῦ Ἀριστοϕάνους. [Diss.] Athens: University. 1981. Pp. 325. Price not stated. - (C.) Moulton Aristophanic poetry. (Hypomnemata, 68.) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 1981. Pp. 152. DM 34.

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R. G. Ussher
R. G. Ussher
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The New University of Ulster
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 103 , November 1983 , pp. 168 - 170
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References

1 Lowell Edmunds: ‘Aristophanes' Acharnians’; Martha Nussbaum: ‘Aristophanes and Socrates on learning practical wisdom’; Jeffrey Henderson: ‘Lysistrate: The Play and its Themes’.

2 Hans-Joachim Newiger: ‘War and peace in the comedy of Aristophanes’.

3 Cf. his Metapher und Allegorie (Munich 1957)Google Scholar.

4 The book was originally intended as a Loeb: the present publishers deserve congratulation for undertaking its production.

5 The Introductory Note may be thought a little skimpy. But views on staging (for example) do of course emerge in Sommerstein's stage-directions and the Notes.

6 ‘Flute/flautist’ occur throughout the volume alongside the preferable ‘pipe/piper’. The note on ‘pipers’ (862) reads: ‘Thebes was famous for flute music’.

7 One quibbles (apart from ‘flutes’) in only four places: 32, tr. ‘looking away (from Athens) towards my farm’ (?), 721, tr. ‘it is open for all… but not for Lamachus’ (?), 920, 967 (n. 8).

8 For example, 920 (Rennie's ‘beetle-boat’) and 967 (Stefanis' ‘for salt-fish’).

9 There are a number of (mainly minor) misprints, including talk of ‘Comic posts’ (p. 7). An Index will presumably be added when all eleven volumes are complete.

10 A sprinkling of misprints includes ‘preverted’ (p. 92) and ‘accountrements’ (pp. 120, 132).

11 His bibliography does not mention Hardy Hansen, ‘Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae: Theme, Structure and Production’ (Philologus 120, 1976, 165–85Google Scholar). See now Frances Muecke, ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman’ (CQ 31, 1982, 41–55).