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Aristophanes: Peace, second edition

edited with a translation, notes and addenda by Alan H. Sommerstein

In Peace, produced in 421 B.C., Aristophanes celebrates in anticipation the conclusion, after ten years, of the great war with Sparta. Peace, we are made to see, is within the grasp of the Greek peoples; let them make one final effort, and all difficulties and dangers will evaporate in the joys of feasting and rustic leisure. The substantial addition in this second edition are eighteen pages of addenda to the Notes and Bibliography. Contents: Text with facing translation, commentary and notes. New edition with addenda 214p (Aris and Phillips 1985, new edition 2005)

Review Quote

"college and university libraries should own a copy for students and faculty looking for a current, comprehensive bibliography to the play."

Martha Habash
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2007)

Table of contents

Preface; References and Abbreviations; Introduction; Select Bibliography; Note on the Text; Sigla; Parallel Greek Text and English Translation; Notes.

Biographical note

Alan H Sommerstein is Professor of Greek and Director of the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception, University of Nottingham; editor of the Aristophanes volumes in the Aris &Phillips Classical Texts series and of Aeschylus Eumenides (Cambridge, 1989); author of Aeschylean Tragedy (Bari, 1996) and of Greek Drama and Dramatists (London, 2002); co-editor of Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis (Bari, 1993), Shards from Kolonos: Studies in Sophoclean Fragments (Bari, forthcoming) and several other multi-author volumes. He is coordinating a collaborative edition of selected fragmentary plays of Sophocles for this series.

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