{"product_id":"aristophanes-frogs-aris-phillips-classical-texts-9780856686481","title":"Aristophanes: Frogs (Aris \u0026 Phillips Classical Texts)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAristophanes Frogs was produced in 405 BC  shortly after the deaths of the two great veteran Athenian tragic dramatists  Euripides and Sophocles. It was restaged a year later  a few weeks before starving Athens at last accepted defeat in the long Peloponnesian War. Dionysus  the god of drama  wine and joyful celebration  goes down to the underworld to bring his favourite poet  Euripides  back from the dead  and surprises both himself and the audience by bringing back instead Aeschylus  who had died fifty years before  with the mission of saving both Athens and Tragedy from ruin. The contest for the throne of tragedy between Euripides and Aeschylus is the earliest sustained piece of literary criticism in the Western tradition. This edition is the first to combine a reliable English translation of Frogs with a full explanatory commentary; it also includes a freshly constituted Greek text. Greek text with facing-page translation  commentary and notes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665852522549,"sku":"ByrdShop_0856686484","price":70.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780856686481.jpg?v=1782410440","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/aristophanes-frogs-aris-phillips-classical-texts-9780856686481","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}