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hawkwing_lbBooks 2010: 134
134. Aristophanes, Frogs and Other Plays. Translated by David Barrett, revised with an introduction and notes by Shomit Dutta. Penguin, London and New York, 2007.
This lively translation comprises Aristophanes' Wasps, a play about a man addicted to jury-service; Women at the Thesmophoria, a play of cross-dressing and dramatist jokes; and Frogs, in which Dionysus descends to Hades, accompanied by his slave, to judge a competition between Aeschylus and Euripides. Barrett renders some parts of the work in a bouncy rhyming verse.
It's not very much use to me, seeing as it only mentions Aesclepius once, but (providing you take the Greeks on their own ground) it's funny, energetic, and alive to humour.
134. Aristophanes, Frogs and Other Plays. Translated by David Barrett, revised with an introduction and notes by Shomit Dutta. Penguin, London and New York, 2007.
This lively translation comprises Aristophanes' Wasps, a play about a man addicted to jury-service; Women at the Thesmophoria, a play of cross-dressing and dramatist jokes; and Frogs, in which Dionysus descends to Hades, accompanied by his slave, to judge a competition between Aeschylus and Euripides. Barrett renders some parts of the work in a bouncy rhyming verse.
It's not very much use to me, seeing as it only mentions Aesclepius once, but (providing you take the Greeks on their own ground) it's funny, energetic, and alive to humour.
