Gerytades An Aristophanes Play... sort of

"In 408 BC Aristophanes' comedy "Gerytades" delighted an audience in Athens, Greece. 2,431 years later, a short passage, a few lines from here and there, and vague but tantalizing mentions of it are all that attest to it ever having existed. Here in America right now, a man self-styled as "Justerides," a name assumed by Mike Juster (which is a name assumed by Michael J. Astrue) has used wit, imagination and those hints and scraps to give us that play back as a story told in verse. Why? What's the big deal? In this comedy-turned-fairytale, there is a quest, a quest to save poetry, and that felt need (perhaps perennial among literary humans) is as pressing today as it was to Aristophanes all those years ago." -- Aaron Poochigian A.M. Juster's tongue-in-cheek retelling of the lost Aristophanes play Gerytades, in rhyming English verse. Illustrated, and with an introduction by translator and poet Aaron Poochigian. 38 pages.