The Birds

Title

The Birds
Author

Aristophanes
Availability This resource is freely available, you should be able to download it now.
Languages

English
Editorial Practice

Encoding format: HTML
OTA keywords Comedies
LC keywords

Greek drama (Comedy)
Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Athens (Greece)--History
Extent
  • designation: CollectionText
  • size: 1 file: ca. 805 kb
Creation Date 1982-present
Source Description

Birds / edited with translation and notes by Alan H. Sommerstein — Birds. English [and] Greek. Aristophanes Sommerstein, Alan H. translator Sommerstein, Alan H. xv, 311 p. ill. : plate, chart ; 22 cm. Aris and Phillips Warminster: 1987 085668287X : Aristophanes. Works. English [and] Greek. 1980 ; 6

Note: Text in Greek with English translation on the opposite page

Note: Translation of: Ornithes
Notes

Mode of access: Online. AHDS website

Title proper taken from AHDS Catalogue Form

The Birds was first produced at the drama festival in 414 BC, where it won second prize. At this period, during the Peloponnesian War, Athens was very powerful and confident, having just launched the expedition to Sicily, fully expecting to triumph in that venture and in the larger war.

Also available at: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/aristophanes/birds.htm