Indeed I suspect that Einhorn was not familiar with either Jeffrey Henderson’s 1996 translation or Sarah Ruden’s from 2003, 1 because his introduction implies that all the versions of Lysistrata he had seen or read were rather tame and staid, whereas Henderson and Ruden are neither by any stretch of the imagination. He writes in his introduction that he used a computer program to see a literal translation of the Greek, and also consulted “several very old translations of the play.” He doesn’t specify who those translators were except to say that one of the translations came from the Victorian era. Einhorn is a playwright and the artistic director of Untitled Theater Company #61, based in New York. Edward Einhorn’s play is an adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, not a translation.
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