Mark Griffith
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mark Griffith's study of the Frogs is the first single book to offer a reliable and sophisticated account of this play in light of modern notions of culture, performance, democracy, religion, and aesthetics. After placing the work in its original historical, cultural, and biographical context, Griffith goes on to underscore the originality of Frogs in relation to parallel developments in the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides, among others. He...