Menander, Volume III (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
656
Utgivningsdatum
2000-09-01
Förlag
Harvard University Press
Översättare
W G Arnott
Originalspråk
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Medarbetare
Arnott, William Geoffrey (ed. & transl.)
Illustrationer
none
Volymtitel
v.3
Dimensioner
170 x 116 x 29 mm
Vikt
363 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
3 v. ;
ISBN
9780674995840

Menander, Volume III

Samia. Sikyonioi. Synaristosai. Phasma. Unidentified Fragments

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The master of New Comedy. Menander (?344/3292/1 BC) of Athens, the leading playwright of the New Comedy, wrote more than 100 plays. Many of his comedies were adapted by Roman dramatists. By the middle ages, however, his works were lost. 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 individualized characters, realistic situations, and at times deeply moving dialogue. Volume I of Geoffrey Arnotts three-volume edition of Menander contains six plays, including Dyskolos (The Peevish Fellow), which won first prize in Athens in 317 BC, and Dis Exapaton (Twice a Swindler), the original of Plautus Two Bacchises. Ten plays are in Volume II, among them 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 Cistellaria was based.

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The new Loeb Menander has received a warm welcome It is a work of solid and meticulous scholarship, the mature production of an acknowledged authority on Greek Comedy. * Classical Review * An excellent guide to Menander Arnott has given us fine texts, clear translations, brief and useful introductions, and the help that is needed to make sense [of the] fragments. -- David Konstan * Scholia Reviews *

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William Geoffrey Arnott, FBA (19302010) was Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Leeds.