Author: Menander (Dichter, Griechenland)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780674995062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Menander (of Athens.)
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780674995062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Menander
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Published: 1997-02-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780674995062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spectacular new finds, many of them in Egypt at Oxyrhynchus, have dramatically expanded the extant work of Menander since Allinson's one volume Loeb edition was published in 1921. This new Loeb Menander is three times the size of the Allinson volume. W. G. Arnott, internationally recognized Menander expert, brings us all of the work of the great Hellenistic comic playwright that is now available. A Greek text based on careful study of the discovered papyri faces a skillful translation that fits today's tastes, with full explanatory notes. 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. So influential in antiquity--his plays were adapted for the Roman stage by Plautus and Terence--Menander's comic art can at last be fully known and enjoyed again. It is a comedy that focuses on the hazards of love and trials of family life--as is typical of New Comedy, a style of which Menander is the leading writer.
Author: Menander (of Athens.)
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sebastiana Nervegna
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 110732825X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.