Frogs
By: Aristophanes ; edited with introduction and commentary by Kenneth Dover.
Contributors: Dover, Kenneth James.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Voyages to the otherworld -- Drama; Dionysus (Greek deity) -- Drama; Playwriting -- Drama; Dramatists -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Other titles: Aristophanes--Frogs.
Description: Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, for the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations which were inadequate and inaccurate. At the same time, its most problematic passages have been the subject, in recent years, of more scholarly articles than those of any other Greek play.

In this introduction, edition, and commentary, Sir Kenneth Dover presents the relevant data, arguments, and considerations as fully as can reasonably be done in one volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Text of Frogs (p. [119]-190) in the original Greek; introduction (p. [1]-106) and commentary (p. [191]-384) in English.