Jeffrey D Henderson

The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy

The pervasive and unrestrained use of obscenity has long been acknowledged as a major feature of fifth-century Attic Comedy; no other Western art form relies so heavily on the sexual and scatological dimensions of language. This acclaimed book, now in a new edition, offers both a comprehensive disc...

New Praetorians (Prae Made, V1)

In the first book of this Sci-fi Graphic Novel Series, Colonel Sienna McKnight obsessively pursues an international terrorist, her mother's killer. Experiments performed on an alien artifact give her exceptional abilities. She fights for the fate of the WORLD and a unique orphan girl. New Praetorian...

Daphnis and Chloe. Anthia and Habrocomes (Loeb Classical Library)

In Longus’s ravishing Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century CE), one of the great works of world literature, an innocent boy and girl gradually discover their sexuality in an idealized pastoral environment. In Xenophon’s Anthia and Habrocomes (first century CE), perhaps the earliest exta...

Aristophanes: Birds; Lysistrata; Women at the Thesmophoria (Loeb Classical Library No. 179) (Greek and English Edition)

Aristophanes (ca. 446–386 BCE), one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. In this third volume of a ne...

Aristophanes: Frogs. Assemblywomen. Wealth. (Loeb Classical Library No. 180)

Aristophanes, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and political life of Athens at its height. This is the fourth and final volume in the new...

Aristophanes : Acharnians, Lysistrata, Clouds

This anthology includes English translations of three of Aristophanes' most popular plays: Acharnians, Clouds, and Lysistrata. Complete with introductions and notes, this volume collection provides honest translations of Aristophanes' ribald humor. Each of these plays is available from Focus in a si...

Aristophanes : The Birds

This is an English translation of Aristophanes’ greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes. Focus Classical Library provides close t...

Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (New Classical Canon)

Three Plays by Aristophanes presents Aristophanes' three women's comedies in a single volume and in unexpurgated, annotated translations. There are introductions to each play, and general introductory chapters cover Aristophanes, his theater and the women in his plays; an appendix contains relevant ...

The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy

The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy

The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy

Industrial Transformation in Eastern Europe in the Light of the East Asian Experience

Aristophanes: Essays in Interpretation

Aristophanes: Samtliche Komodien

Aristophanes: Samtliche Komodien

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