Aristophanis Comoediae Undecim, Graece Et Latine
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: ** Greek-Latin text ** - Good for age - Binding: Original leather, dried and cracked with the usual age wear. The boards are detached on both volumes. Text block: Structurally sound in both volumes, with no loose leaves. Foxing, as is usual for paper of this period. Provenance and markings: Ex-library (Norfolk & Norwich Library). Each volume has a library sticker on the front board and another on the front pastedown; inscribed “Presented by John Henry Gurney Esq.” and dated [1908].
Few voices from antiquity crackle with as much anarchic wit and political daring as Aristophanes, the undisputed master of Athenian Old Comedy — and Aristophanis Comoediae Undecim, Graece et Latine presents all eleven of his surviving plays in a magisterial bilingual edition that has served scholars and classicists for centuries. Edited with the meticulous philological care of Stephanus Bergler and supplemented by the annotations of Caroli Andreae Dukeri, the two-volume set additionally chronicles the fragmentary remains of lost comedies gathered by Theod. Cantero and Gul. Cordaero, making it one of the most comprehensive critical editions of Aristophanes ever assembled. Published under the prestigious editorial superintendence of Petrus Burmannus Secundus (Pieter Burman the Younger) and issued by the celebrated Leiden academic press of Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, this edition stands as a monument of 18th-century classical scholarship. The eleven comedies — including The Clouds, The Birds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs — cut through the political and intellectual pretensions of fifth-century Athens with a savagery that remains startlingly modern, lampooning figures from Socrates to Euripides with equal relish. Aristophanes' genius lies in his ability to weaponise laughter as a tool of serious moral and civic critique, a quality that this parallel Greek-Latin text makes accessible to the rigorous scholar and the curious humanist alike. Whether encountered as theatre, poetry, or political philosophy, these plays pose a question that has never lost its urgency: what does a society reveal about itself when it laughs?
Author: Aristophanes
Format: Hardback
Published: 1760, Apud Samuelem et Joannem Luchtmans
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: ** Greek-Latin text ** - Good for age - Binding: Original leather, dried and cracked with the usual age wear. The boards are detached on both volumes. Text block: Structurally sound in both volumes, with no loose leaves. Foxing, as is usual for paper of this period. Provenance and markings: Ex-library (Norfolk & Norwich Library). Each volume has a library sticker on the front board and another on the front pastedown; inscribed “Presented by John Henry Gurney Esq.” and dated [1908].
Few voices from antiquity crackle with as much anarchic wit and political daring as Aristophanes, the undisputed master of Athenian Old Comedy — and Aristophanis Comoediae Undecim, Graece et Latine presents all eleven of his surviving plays in a magisterial bilingual edition that has served scholars and classicists for centuries. Edited with the meticulous philological care of Stephanus Bergler and supplemented by the annotations of Caroli Andreae Dukeri, the two-volume set additionally chronicles the fragmentary remains of lost comedies gathered by Theod. Cantero and Gul. Cordaero, making it one of the most comprehensive critical editions of Aristophanes ever assembled. Published under the prestigious editorial superintendence of Petrus Burmannus Secundus (Pieter Burman the Younger) and issued by the celebrated Leiden academic press of Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, this edition stands as a monument of 18th-century classical scholarship. The eleven comedies — including The Clouds, The Birds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs — cut through the political and intellectual pretensions of fifth-century Athens with a savagery that remains startlingly modern, lampooning figures from Socrates to Euripides with equal relish. Aristophanes' genius lies in his ability to weaponise laughter as a tool of serious moral and civic critique, a quality that this parallel Greek-Latin text makes accessible to the rigorous scholar and the curious humanist alike. Whether encountered as theatre, poetry, or political philosophy, these plays pose a question that has never lost its urgency: what does a society reveal about itself when it laughs?