num_pages: 143
description: Excerpt from The Birds of Aristophanes Considered in Relation to Athenian PoliticsClough or by Stewart and Long but I have varied them considerably in places with the object of a more literal rendering. The quotations from Aristophanes follow mainly the Bohn translation a literal prose rendering of that author being in my opinion Of more value than verse. For the extracts from the Athenian Constitution I have followed the rendering with one or two slight verbal altera tions of Sir F. G. Kenyon. I have made use of English in preference to the Greek for these quotations because I am in hope that this book will prove Of some interest to the general reader.
language: English
title: The Birds of Aristophanes, Considered in Relation to Athenian Politics
publisher: Forgotten Books