List Of Editions, Commentaries, Etc., Used Or
Consulted
Text: edit. Dindorf, Oxford
Text: edit. Blaydes. 1886.
Text, with Notes, etc.: edit. Immanuel
Bekker. 5 vols. 1829.
Text, with Notes, etc.: Brunck.
Text, with (German) Notes, etc.: Separate
Plays: edit. Kock.
Text, with Notes, etc.: Separate Plays:
edit. Rev. W. W. Merry. 1887-1901.
Translation: English, by W. J. Hickie. (Bohn’s
Classical Library.)
Translation: English verse, ‘Knights,’
‘Acharnians,’ ‘Clouds,’ ‘Wasps,’
by Mitchell. 1822.
Translation: English verse, ‘Knights,’
‘Acharnians,’ ‘Birds,’ ‘Frogs,’
‘Peace,’ by Hookham Frere. 1871.
Translation: English verse, Various Plays, by
B. Bickley Rogers. 1867 onwards.
Translation: French, by C. Poyard. ("Chefs-d’oeuvre
des Littératures
Anciennes.” Paris, Hachette. 1875.)
Translation: French, by Eugène Talbot, with Preface
by Sully Prudhomme. 2 vols. Paris, Lemerre. 1897.
Translation: German, by Droysen.
“Aristophanes” (Ancient Classics for English
Readers): edit. W. Lucas Collins. 1897.
“Aristophane et l’ancienne Comédie attique,”
par Auguste Couat. Paris. 1889.
“Aristophane et les Partis à Athens,”
par Maurice Croiset. Paris, Fontemoing. 1906.
“Beiträge zur inneren Geschichte Athens im Zeitalter
des Pelopon. Krieges,” G. Gilbert.
Leipzig. 1877.
“Die attischen Politik seit Perikles,”
J. Beloch. Leipzig. 1884.
“Aristophanes und die historische Kritik,”
Müller-Strübing. Leipzig. 1873.
[1] Ancient Classics for English Readers: Aristophanes,
by Lucas Collins, Introductory Chapter, p. 2.
[2] “Aristophane”: Traduction Nouvelle,
par C. Poyard (Paris, 1875): Introduction.
[3] Ancient Classics for English Readers: “Aristophanes,”
by Lucas Collins. Introductory Chapter, p. 12.
This was the fourth play in order of time produced
by Aristophanes on the Athenian stage; it was brought
out at the Lenaean Festival, in January, 424 B.C.
Of the author’s previous efforts, two, ‘The
Revellers’ and ’The Babylonians,’
were apparently youthful essays, and are both lost.
The other, ‘The Acharnians,’ forms the
first of the three Comedies dealing directly with
the War and its disastrous effects and urging the
conclusion of Peace; for this reason it is better ranged
along with its sequels, the ‘Peace’ and
the ‘Lysistrata,’ and considered in conjunction
with them.
