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Aristophanes.(Review)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 19990501
Author:Lyons, Donald

Jeffrey Henderson, editor and translator Aristophanes. Volume 1: Acharnians, Knights; 408 pages, $19.95. Volume 2: Clouds, Wasps, Peace; 606 pages, $19.95. Loeb Classical Library/Harvard University Press.

The revitalization of the Loeb Classical Library continues apace, at least for some major Greek authors. Alongside Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones's Sophocles (complete), David Kovacs's Euripides (three volumes to date), and William H. Race's Pindar (complete), now arrive the first two volumes of Jeffrey Henderson's Aristophanes.

It is the general aim of these new Loeb editions to ...

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