Research Catalog

Title

Menander / edited and translated by W.G. Arnott.

Author

Menander, of Athens

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1997-2000.
• [Place of manufacture not identified] : The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, [date of manufacture not identified]

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Details

Additional Authors

Arnott, W. Geoffrey (William Geoffrey), 1930-

Description

3 volumes; 17 cm

Summary

MENANDER (?342/3 - 291/1 BC) of Athens was the leading playright of the "New Comedy", a type of drama which has influenced the modern "Comedy of Manners" and (indirectly at least writers as disparate as Oscar Wilde and P.G. Wodehouse. Menander wrote more than 100 plays, but did not become a star until after his death. Many of his comedies were adapted by Roman dramatists. By the middle ages, however, his works were lost, apart from quotations like "He whom the gods love dies while still a youngster." Then at the end of the nineteenth century, papyrus texts, preserved from antiquity by the dry heat of Egypt, began to be discovered. These have yielded so far one play virtually complete (Dyskolos), large continuous portions of four more (Aspis, Epitrepontes, Perikeiromene, Samia), and sizable chunks of many others. Menander remains a paradox: artificial plots based on unlikely but conventional coincidences, enlivened by individualised characters, realistic situations and at times deeply moving dialogue.

Series Statement

Loeb classical library ; 132, 459-460

Uniform Title

• Plays. English & Greek
• Loeb classical library ; 132, 459-460.

Alternative Title

Plays.

Subject

• Menander, of Athens > Translations into English
• Menander, of Athens
• Greek drama (Comedy) > Translations into English
• Greece > Drama
• Greece

Genre/Form

• Drama.
• Translations.
• Comedies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages xlvii-lii).

Language (note)

• Text in Greek and English on opposite pages; commentary in English.

Contents

Volume I. Aspis (The shield) ; Georgos (The farmer) ; Dis Exapaton = (Twice a swindler) ; Dyskolos (The peevish fellow) ; Encheiridion (The dagger) ; Epitrepontes (Men at arbritation) -- volume II. Heros (The guardian spirit) ; Theophoroumene (The demoniac girl) ; Karchedonios (The man from Carthage) ; Kitharistes (The lyre player) ; Kolax (The fawner) ; Koneiazomenai (Women drinking hemlock) ; Leukadia (The girl from Leucas) ; Misoumenos (The hated man) ; Perikeiromene (The girl with her hair cut short) ; Perinthia (The girl from Perinthus) -- volume III. Samia (The woman from Samos) ; Sikyonioi (The Sicyonians) ; Synaristosai (Women lunching together) ; Phasma (The apparition) ; Unidentified and excluded papyri : Fabula incerta 1-9 ; New book fragments ; Plot summaries.

Call Number

PA3611

ISBN

• 9780674991477
• 0674991478
• 9780674995062
• 0674995066
• 9780674995840
• 0674995848

OCLC

958151212

Author

Menander, of Athens, author.

Title

Menander / edited and translated by W.G. Arnott.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1997-2000.

Manufacturer

Volumes 1-2 : [Place of manufacture not identified] : The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, [date of manufacture not identified]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Loeb classical library ; 132, 459-460

Loeb classical library ; 132, 459-460.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages xlvii-lii).

Language

Text in Greek and English on opposite pages; commentary in English.

Added Author

Arnott, W. Geoffrey (William Geoffrey), 1930- translator.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA3611 .M46