Birds - With Introduction and Commentary (Student ed)

"Birds" is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is the source of the word "Cloudcuckooland"), and its original lyrics.This is an abridgement of Nan Dunbar's edition of "Birds" published in 1995, which was a comprehensive edition.

The abridged version retains all the material designed to help the less advanced student of Greek or the non-specialist to translate, understand, and enjoy the play.

It retains the notes on staging, but the metrical, textual and ornithological problems are dealt with more summarily, and purely illustrative parallels are omitted.The introduction covers more concisely the same ground as that of the full-length edition, but omits the detailed discussions of the individual manuscripts and their interrelations.