Aristophanes Frogs

Among extant Greek comedies the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on Classical Greek attitudes toward tragedy and literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received and 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.