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A.H. Sommerstein

Author of Modern phonology (Theoretical linguistics)

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Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor, of Greek at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published extensively on Greek tragedy and comedy, producing editions and/or translations of complete or fragmentary plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Menander, as well as co-authoring two volumes show more on the oath in ancient Greece. show less

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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens (0458) — Translator, some editions — 11,687 copies, 87 reviews
Lysistrata (0411) — Translator, some editions — 3,212 copies, 47 reviews
3 Plays: Acharnians / Clouds / Lysistrata (0447) — Translator, some editions — 2,343 copies, 19 reviews
The Clouds (0423) — Editor, some editions; Translator, some editions — 904 copies, 16 reviews
5 Plays: Knights / Peace / Birds / Assembly-Women / Wealth (1978) — Translator, some editions — 600 copies, 2 reviews
The Clouds [Greek text] (1969) — Editor, some editions — 291 copies, 6 reviews
The Assembly of Women [in translation] (0392) — Translator, some editions — 194 copies, 2 reviews
The Wasps [translations] (0422) — Translator, some editions — 181 copies, 3 reviews
The Acharnians [Greek text] (0425) — Translator, some editions — 162 copies, 2 reviews
Peace [Greek text] (0421) — Translator, some editions — 146 copies, 2 reviews
Lysistrata [Greek text] (1981) — Editor, some editions — 145 copies, 1 review
The Knights [translations] (0424) — Translator, some editions — 123 copies, 5 reviews
Wealth [in translation] (0388) — Translator, some editions — 115 copies, 1 review
A Companion to Tragedy (2005) — Contributor — 21 copies
Oxford Readings in Aristophanes (1996) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod (Oxford Handbooks) (2018) — Contributor — 17 copies
The Wasps [bilingual editions] (1983) — Translator, some editions — 17 copies, 1 review
The Women at the Thesmophoria [bilingual editions] (1994) — Translator, some editions — 14 copies
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy (2014) — Contributor — 11 copies
Wealth [bilingual editions] (2001) — Translator, some editions — 11 copies, 2 reviews
Looking at Lysistrata: Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes' Provocative Comedy (2011) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion (2015) — Contributor — 10 copies, 1 review
Personification in the Greek World: From Antiquity to Byzantium (2005) — Contributor — 9 copies
The language of Greek comedy (2002) — Contributor — 7 copies
Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition (Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society) (1998) — Contributor — 7 copies, 1 review
Greek Tragedy and the Historian (1997) — Contributor — 6 copies
Brill's companion to Sophocles (2012) — Contributor — 6 copies
Free Speech in Classical Antiquity (2004) — Contributor — 6 copies
Playing Around: Aristophanes Essays in Honour of Alan Sommerstein (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts) (2006) — Contributor — 5 copies
Dionysalexandros : essays on Aeschylus and his fellow tragedians in honour of Alexander F. Garvie (2006) — Contributor — 5 copies
Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought (2013) — Contributor — 5 copies
Brill's companion to the study of Greek comedy (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies
A Companion to Aeschylus (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (2022) — Contributor — 4 copies
Crisis on stage tragedy and comedy in late fifth-century Athens (2011) — Contributor — 3 copies
Ancient comedy and reception : essays in honor of Jeffrey Henderson (2013) — Contributor — 3 copies
Theatre World : Critical Perspectives on Greek Tragedy and Comedy. Studies in Honour of Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos (2017) — Contributor — 3 copies
Greek Art in View: Essays in Honour of Brian Sparkes (2004) — Contributor — 2 copies
Page and Stage: Intersections of Text and Performance in Ancient Greek Drama (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 146) (2023) — Contributor — 1 copy
Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 84) (2020) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Aristophanes: Knights (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts) by Alan H. Sommerstein
A satirical, tongue in cheek, and playful piece of drama composed by Aristophanes. The wordplay is quite skillful here, as are the turns of phrase and the careful jabs at humor and allusions that are mentioned. Overall, it was a decent play- I preferred it to Aristophanes' earlier work, "The Archarnians." This also persuades me to continue reading Aristophanes' work, as the development of what he is capable of doing seems to extend with each subsequent work of comedy that he has.

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May 26, 2019

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