Word: hendersons
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Among the revised authors, Aristophanes' works stand to undergo a significant face lift, said Jeffrey Henderson, the playwright's new translator and a professor of classics at Boston University...
...Henderson explained that the Loeb's current version of Aristophanes "may be a little dated" and that its author, 19th century classicist B.B. Rogers, "was only as Aristophanic as the Victorian Age would allow...
...revision, Henderson plans to reintroduce some of the original ribaldry, political satire and rampant sexuality that was endemic to Greek culture, but which Rogers edited...
...sexual, erotic and political aspects are really central to Greek civilization," Henderson said. "You can't just throw out the dirty laundry, pretending it doesn't exist...
...Henderson even drew parallels between some of the themes covered in Aristophanes' plays and the nation's contemporary political drama, nothing that the playwright accused the Athenian leader, Pericles, of irresponsible sexual behavior in his play Archarians...