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Format: 1 online resource (xv, 317 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9780511783623 (ebook)

Content: 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.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Canonizing Menander in Athens, Alexandria and Rome -- Menander in public theatres -- Menander at dinner parties -- Menander in schools -- Appendix one: Roman palliatae and their Greek models -- Appendix two: Paintings and mosaics illustrating new comedy -- Appendix three: Paintings and mosaics illustrating tragedy -- Appendix four: Menander-papyri.

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781107004221

Language: English

Subjects: Ancient Studies

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511783623

URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)

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Format: XV, 317 S. , Ill. , 25 cm

ISBN: 1107004225 , 9781107004221

Note: Canonizing Menander in Athens, Alexandria and RomeMenander in public theatres -- Menander at dinner parties -- Menander in schools -- Appendix one: Roman palliatae and their Greek models -- Appendix two: Paintings and mosaics illustrating new comedy -- Appendix three: Paintings and mosaics illustrating tragedy -- Appendix four: Menander-papyri.

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Nervegna, Sebastiana Menander in antiquity Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 ISBN 9780511783623

Language: English

Subjects: Ancient Studies

Keywords: Menander v342-v291

URL: Autorenbiografie

URL: Verlagsangaben

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Format: Online-Ressource (336 p)

Edition: Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781107004221

Content: Reconstructs the ancient afterlife of Menander by focusing on three contexts of reception: public theatre, private entertainment and schools

Note: Description based upon print version of record , Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Canonizing Menander in Athens, Alexandria and Rome; Setting the stage: theatres and dramatists in the fourth and early third centuries BC; The politics of the Greek comic tradition; Foreign poets, later comedy and politics; The politics of Menander and his plays; The Peripatetic school, comedy and Menander; From Athens to Alexandria and Rome: Menander between scholars and actors; Back to Athens: Menander in the Theatre of Dionysus; 2 Menander in public theatres , Menander and old plays in Athens and in Greek Hellenistic theatresGreek poets in the Roman palliatae; The Greek background to Roman 'play-spoiling' 1: excerpted plays and dramas set to music; The Greek background to Roman 'play-spoiling' 2: the Greek 'revisions'; Menander and New Comedy in public theatres under the Empire; Euripides, Menander and 'common' Greek; Menander and comedy writing in antiquity; 3 Menander at dinner parties; Reproducing Menander in Athens and beyond; The Menander portraits and their display contexts , The iconographic tradition of Menander's comedies and its interpretative problemsArchetypes and iconographic corruption; Guests and Greek drama at dinner parties; Actors at dinner parties: who they were, where they were and what they did; Texts and images; Drama, houses and identity: Menander's comedy as a cultural symbol; 4 Menander in schools; Menander and primary teachers; Menander, grammarians and rhetors; Plays and summaries; Declaiming with Menander; Rhetors, orators and performance between Greece and Rome; Stages and schools, actors and students , Describing and illustrating performance for studentsMenander, moralism and the conservative stamp of ancient education; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Roman palliatae and their Greek models; Appendix 2 Paintings and mosaics illustrating New Comedy; Scenes from public buildings (1); Scenes from tombs (1); Scenes from triclinia (14 or 15); Scenes from reception areas (10 or 11); Scenes from porticos, atria and related areas such as vestibulum, tablinum and ala (13 or 15); Scenes from private domestic areas (1); Scenes from unidentified domestic areas (9); Scenes from unidentified buildings (5 or 6) , Scenes of unknown provenance (10)Appendix 3 Paintings and mosaics illustrating tragedy; Scenes from tombs (2); Scenes from triclinia (3 or 4); Scenes from reception areas (6); Scenes from porticoes, atria and related areas such as vestibulum, tablinum and ala (4 or 8); Scenes from private domestic areas (1); Scenes from unidentified domestic areas (1); Scenes from unidentified buildings (1); Scenes of unknown provenance (25?); Appendix 4 Menander papyri; Aspis (3 or 5); Dis Exapaton (1 or 4); Dyskolos (8); Encheiridion (1); Epitrepontes (13 or 14); Georgos (4 or 5); Heros (1) , Karkhedonios (1 or 2) , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781107334694

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781107004221

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Menander in Antiquity : The Contexts of Reception

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

URL: Volltext

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Format: VII, 598 S. , zahlr. Ill.

Series Statement: Biologische Studienbücher 5

Language: German

Subjects: Biology