The Making of Menander's Comedy

The Making of Menander's Comedy PDF

Author: Sander M. Goldberg

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-01-13

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1472507827

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The discovery on papyrus of plays by Menander, the greatest writer of Greek New Comedy, at last makes possible an evaluation on his own terms of an ancient author who, through the adaptations of Plautus and Terence, profoundly influenced the course of western drama. The present study establishes a critical perspective for understanding the kind of comedy Menander wrote, his roots, the theatrical effects he sought, and the extent of his achievement. Chapters on the major plays analyse their techniques of construction and characterisation, suggesting both the strengths and the limitations of Menander's comic tradition. This study is based on the Oxford Greek text but cites all ancient authors in translation to open the discussion to a wider audience. An introductory chapter places the tradition of New Comedy in the history of drama, and modern parallels are drawn wherever helpful. It will therefore be of value to students of drama as well as to classicists.

Menander in Contexts

Menander in Contexts PDF

Author: Alan H. Sommerstein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1135014655

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The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) and his contemporaries were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light drama that has continued to the present day. Yet for over a millennium, Menander’s own plays were thought to have been completely lost. Thanks to a long and continuing series of papyrus discoveries, Menander has now been able to take his place among the major surviving ancient Greek dramatists alongside Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. In this book, sixteen contributors examine and explore the Menander we know today in light of the various literary, intellectual, and social contexts in which his plays can be viewed. Topics covered include: the society, culture, and politics of his generation; the intellectual currents of the period; the literary precursors who inspired Menander (or whom he expected his audiences to recall); and responses to Menander, from his own time to ours. As the first wide-ranging collective study of Menander in English, this book is essential reading for those interested in ancient comedy the world over.

Menander I Soter 163-130 Bce.: The Bactrian Greek King - Emperor of India

Menander I Soter 163-130 Bce.: The Bactrian Greek King - Emperor of India PDF

Author: Tony Malliaras

Publisher: Thorpe-Bowker

Published: 2018-07-11

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780648351924

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Menander I Soter the Bactrian Greek King who reigned from 163 to 130 BCE in Northern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan takes on Emperor Pushyamitra Sunga I the usurper, who rules the Mauryan Empire from his capital in Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley. Menander supports and is the champion of Buddhism. Emperor Pushyamitra tries to exterminate the Buddhist Order. Screenplay by Tony Malliaras.

Menander’s Characters in Context

Menander’s Characters in Context PDF

Author: Stavroula Kiritsi

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-01-06

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 152754494X

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Menander was renowned—and still is—for his naturalistic representations of character and emotion. However, times change, and our ideas of what is ‘natural’ change with them. To appreciate Menander’s art fully, we need to attune ourselves to the expectations of his time, and for this there is no better guide than Aristotle (along with his successor Theophrastus), who described and analysed notions of character and emotion in brilliant detail. This book examines the relevant observations of Aristotle, and explores two of Menander’s comedies in this light. It also discusses how these comedies, which have only been recovered in the past century, were adapted and performed on the Modern Greek stage, where tastes were different and Menander had been virtually unknown. The book’s comparison of the ancient originals and the modern versions sheds new light on both, as well as on cultural values then and now.

Menander in Antiquity

Menander in Antiquity PDF

Author: Sebastiana Nervegna

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-04-25

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 110732825X

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The comic playwright Menander was one of the most popular writers throughout antiquity. This book reconstructs his life and the legacy of his work until the end of antiquity employing a broad range of sources such as portraits, illustrations of his plays, papyri preserving their texts and inscriptions recording their public performances. These are placed within the context of the three social and cultural institutions which appropriated his comedy, thereby ensuring its survival: public theatres, dinner parties and schools. Dr Nervegna carefully reconstructs how each context approached Menander's drama and how it contributed to its popularity over the centuries. The resultant, highly illustrated, book will be essential for all scholars and students not just of Menander's comedy but, more broadly, of the history and iconography of the ancient theatre, ancient social history and reception studies.

Menander, Volume I

Menander, Volume I PDF

Author: Menander (Dichter, Griechenland)

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13:

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Menander, the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays. By the Middle Ages they had all been lost. Happily papyrus finds in Egypt during the past century have recovered one complete play, substantial portions of six others, and smaller but still interesting fragments. Menander was highly regarded in antiquity and his plots, set in Greece, were adapted for the Roman world by Plautus and Terence. Geoffrey Arnott's new Loeb edition is in three volumes. Volume I contains six plays, including the only complete one extant, Dyskolos (The Peevish Fellow), which won first prize in Athens in 317 B.C., and Dis Expaton (Twice a Swindler), the original of Plautus' Two Bacchises. Volume II contains the surviving portions of ten Menander plays. Among these are the recently published fragments of Misoumenos ("The Man She Hated"), which sympathetically presents the flawed relationship of a soldier and a captive girl; and the surviving half of Perikeiromene ("The Girl with Her Hair Cut Short"), a comedy of mistaken identity and lovers' quarrel. Volume III begins with Samia (The Woman from Samos), which has come down to us nearly complete. Here too are the very substantial extant portions of Sikyonioi (The Sicyonians) and Phasma (The Apparition) as well as Synaristosai (Women Lunching Together), on which Plautus's Cistellaria was based. Arnott's edition of the great Hellenistic playwright has been garnering wide praise for making these fragmentary texts more accesible, elucidating their dramatic movement.

The Plays and Fragments

The Plays and Fragments PDF

Author: Menander,

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-05-08

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 019954073X

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The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of others survive. This new verse translation is accurate and highly readable, providing a consecutive text by using surviving words in the damaged papyri.

Menander and the Making of Comedy

Menander and the Making of Comedy PDF

Author: J. M. Walton

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1996-02-28

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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An engaging introduction to the plays and dramatic method of the most highly regarded comic writer of the classical period.

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