Author:Aristophanes

Aristophanes
(448 BCE – 385 BCE)

Aristophanes

Works

• The Acharnians (425 BCE)

  The Acharnians, trans. by John Hookham Frere [1839] (1895 edition)

• The Knights (424 BCE)
• The Clouds (original 423 BCE, uncompleted revised version from 419–416 BCE survives)
• The Wasps (422 BCE)
• Peace (first version, 421 BCE)
• The Birds (414 BCE)
• Lysistrata (411 BCE)
• The Thesmophoriazusae (The Festival Women, first version, c. 410 BCE)
• The Frogs (405 BCE)
• The Ecclesiazusae (The Assemblywomen, c. 392 BCE)
• Plutus (Wealth, second version, 388 BCE)

Compilations

• The Comedies of Aristophanes, translated by William James Hickie, 1853. (part of Bohn's Classical Library); Vol. II (transcription project)
• Aristophanes, by William Lucas Collins, 1872. (abridged versions of the plays, with context)
• The Eleven Comedies (1920s)

About

• "Comedy: Aristophanes", Chapter XIII. in A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray, 1901.
• "Aristophanes," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Aristophanes," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Aristophanes," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Aristophanes," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Aristophanes," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

On his works

• Aristophanes, by William Lucas Collins, 1872.
• "Aristophanes as a Student of Society" by Arthur Fairbanks in The American Journal of Sociology 8(5): 655–666, 1903.
• "Birds, The," by Paul Shorey in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)