Aristophanes

— Acharnians — Knights — Clouds — Wasps — Peace — Birds — Lysistrata — Thesmophoriazusae — Frogs — Ecclesiazusae — Wealth — Fragments —

General Resources

English Translations

Complete Works

  • P. Roche, The Complete Plays: Aristophanes (New York, 2005)
  • Loeb (current): J. Henderson, LCL (1998-2002)
  • K. McLeish, Aristophanes: Plays, 2 vols. (London, 1993, 1998)
  • A. S. Way, Aristophanes in English Verse, 2 vols. (London, 1927, 1934)
  • B. B. Rogers, 4 vols. (London, 1902, 1910-13, 1916); reprinted as Dr. Rogers’ Translations from Aristophanes, 5 vols. (London, 1919-23); reprinted in LCL, 3 vols. (1924, 1938, 1950, 1960); Five Comedies (New York, 1955)
  • C. A. Wheelwright, The Comedies of Aristophanes, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1837)

Collections

  • A. Poochigian
  • P. Roche, Four Plays by Aristophanes [Lysistrata; Frogs; A Parliament of Women; Plutus (Wealth)] (New York, 2004)
  • S. Halliwell, Birds and Other Plays [Lysistrata; Assembly-Women; Wealth] (Oxford, 1997)
  • J. Henderson, Three Plays by Aristophanes [Lysistrata; Women at the Thesmophoria; Assemblywomen] (New York, 1996)
  • K. McLeish, Aristophanes and Menander: New Comedy [includes Wealth and Women in Power] (London, 1994, 1998)
  • K. McLeish, Clouds, Women in Power, Knights (Cambridge, 1979)
  • A. H. Sommerstein and D. Barrett, Aristophanes [AHS: Knights; Peace; Wealth; DB: Birds; Assembly Women] (Penguin, 1978, 1982)
  • A. H. Sommerstein, The Acharnians, The Clouds, Lysistrata (Penguin, 1973); revised as Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin, 2002)
  • W. Arrowsmith and D. Parker, Three Comedies by Aristophanes [WA: Birds; Clouds; DP: Wasps] (Ann Arbor, 1969)
  • D. Parker and R. Lattimore, Four Comedies by Aristophanes [DP: Lysistrata; Acharnians; Congresswomen; RL: Frogs] (Ann Arbor, 1969)
  • D. Barrett, The Frogs and Other Plays [Frogs; Wasps; The Poet and the Women] (Penguin, 1964); re-issued as The Wasps, The Poet and the Women, The Frogs (Penguin, 2003)
  • D. Fitts, Aristophanes: Four Comedies (New York, 1959, 1962)
  • Everyman’s Library: vol. 1: The Acharnians; The Knights; The Birds; The Peace (London, 1909 etc.) [Google Books]; vol. 2: “Introduction” by J. Hookham Frere (1820); The Frogs, tr. J. Hookham Frere; The Trial of Euripides, “The Thesmophorians,” tr. W. J. Hickie; The Clouds, tr. T. Mitchell; The Wasps, tr. Cumberland (London, 1911 etc.) [Google Books]
  • J. Hookham Frere (1839): The Works of John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose, vol. 2 [includes Acharnians; Knights; Birds; Frogs; Peace] (London, 1872) [Google Books]
  • T. Mitchell, The Comedies of Aristophanes, 2 vols. [The Acharnians; The Knights, or the Demagogues; The Clouds (tr. Cumberland); The Wasps + The Dicast Turned Gentleman] (London, 1820-1822) [Google Books (2 vols. in 1)]; vol. 2 [The Clouds (tr. Cumberland); The Wasps + The Dicast Turned Gentleman] (London, 1822) [Google Books]
  • [Collection dated 1812 includes:] Clouds, tr. R. Cumberland (1786/1797); Plutus, tr. H. Fielding and W. Young (1742) [Google Books]; Frogs, tr. C. Dunster (1785) (London, 1800) [Google Books]; Birds, tr. “by a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge” / “by a Member of One of the Universities” (London, 1812) [All this in bound together in one volume has not been found online so far]

Adaptations

Newer Scholarship

  • R. Rosen and H. Foley (eds.), Aristophanes and Politics: New Studies, Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, Volume 45 (Leiden: Brill, 2020) [Review by Martin in BMCR]
  • D. Kanellakis, Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise, Trends in Classics, Suppl. 96 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020) [Review by Lech in BMCR]

Reception