From jmpfund@bgnet.bgsu.edu Mon Jul 1 10:01:33 2002 Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g61H1Pw3065652 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:01:25 -0700 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Jul 01 10:01:23 2002 -0700 Received: from smtp02.bgsu.edu (smtp02.bgsu.edu [129.1.5.18]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with ESMTP id g61H1NR8021099 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:01:23 -0700 Received: from [129.1.105.78] (dhcp-105-78.bgsu.edu [129.1.105.78]) by smtp02.bgsu.edu (Switch-2.2.2/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id g61H1LJ18025 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:01:22 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jmpfund@mailstore.bgsu.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:01:26 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: "James M. Pfundstein" Subject: Re: Aristophanes in translation Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" At 9:21 PM +0100 6/30/02, Mark Joseph wrote: >What do list members recommend as the best English translation of >Aristophanes, either as a complete set, or individual plays? I am rereading >the Greek plays, in translations other than the Penguins (which I read >first, long ago). Thanks in advance. > >Mark Joseph I'm a big fan of Douglass Parker's translations, in general, and I seem to remember his translation of _Lysistrata_, in particular, being pretty funny. Incidentally, I went to Amazon to see if this book was still in print (it is, from Signet), and I saw they have listed Hackett's "Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies" translated by Berg and Parker. The authors Amazon gives for the book are Terence and Berg; Parker is credited as translator. The editor (says Amazon) is that eminent classicist, Titus MacCius Plautus. (Titus MacCius of the clan MacCius, I assume-- there can be only one.) I wasted a few minutes speculating about other ethnicities Amazon might discover, with a little creative orthography. The French orator "de Mosthenes"? The Welsh novelist and popular philosopher "ap Uleius"? The Arabic "al Bertus"? JM("McNally")P .