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The Birds
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Further Reading & Resources
Further Reading: Scholarship
Nephelokokkygia: Charting the Comic Polis edited by Gregory Dobrov (1990)
This book is a collection of essays by different scholars on the political and ideological elements of the play, edited by the scholar Gregory Dobrov and published by Trugedy.
Aristophanes: Birds by Nan Dunbar (1998)
Nan Dunbar’s study is the most comprehensive and authoritative commentary on the play, keyed to the original Greek text and published by Oxford University Press. The commentary sheds light on many of the play’s literary, linguistic, cultural, and historical aspects, lavishing much attention on Aristophanes’s use of avian and ornithological motifs.
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