Aristophanes, I, Acharnians. Knights

Aristophanes

Edited and translated by Jeffrey Henderson

  • Winner of the 2001 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit

Henderson's sound texts and plain translations give us exactly the Aristophanes we need: a reliable prose waiting to be quickened into poetic life by the reader's imagination, laughter, and amazement.
   --Donald Lyons, The New Criterion

Henderson, who may fairly be considered the leading Aristophanic scholar in North America, has now...provided us with both a useful text and idiomatic...translation. It is certainly a work that scholars may use with confidence and may recommend to their students.
   --Ian C. Storey, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Henderson's translation keeps close to the Greek, but successfully manages to indicate something of Aristophanes' linguistic diversity; it has been carried off with admirable crispness...A highly welcome addition to the Loeb Library.
   --Stephen Halliwell, Greece and Rome

It is accordingly a pleasure to note the appearance of the first of what will be four new Loeb volumes of Aristophanes…this is an important edition of a major Greek author and an absolute "must-buy" for all college and university libraries.
   --S. Douglas Olson, Classical World

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  • A photo of the author

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Jeffrey Henderson is William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Boston University. He is General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library.