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Format: 1 online resource (VIII, 437 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 3-11-129528-1

Series Statement: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 154

Content: Ancient Greek comedy relied primarily on its text and words for the fulfilment of its humorous effects and aesthetic goals. In the wake of a rich tradition of previous scholarship, this volume explores a variety of linguistic materials and stylistic artifices exploited by the Greek comic poets, from vocabulary and figures of speech (metaphors, similes, rhyme) to types of joke, obscenity, and the mechanisms of parody. Most of the chapters focus on Aristophanes and Old Comedy, which offers the richest arsenal of such techniques, but the less ploughed fields of Middle and New Comedy are also explored. Emphasis is placed on practical criticism and textual readings, on the examination of particular artifices of speech and the analysis of individual passages. The main purpose is to highlight the use of language for the achievement of the aesthetic, artistic, and intellectual purposes of ancient comedy, in particular for the generation of humour and comic effect, the delineation of characters, the transmission of ideological messages, and the construction of poetic meaning. The volume will be useful to scholars of ancient drama, linguists, students of humour, and scholars of Classical literature in general.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Preface -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , Metaphors and Personifications Onstage -- , Imaginary Wor(l)ds: Comic Language and the Construction of Fantasy -- , A Less Maculate Muse -- , Like a Rabid Dog: Animal Metaphors and Similes in Aristophanes -- , The Shop of Aristophanes the Carpenter: How Comic Poets Assembled (and Disassembled) Words -- , “When He Should Have Said...” The Treatment of Humour παρ’ ὑπόνοιαν in the Aristophanic Scholia -- , Rhyme in Greek Comedy -- , Three Words in Aristophanes’ Wealth (999, 1037, 1083) -- , Spoudaiogeloion Revisited: Homeric Text between a Scholar and a Cook -- , Proper Names, Nicknames, Epithets: Aspects of Comic Language in Middle Comedy -- , Strategies of Verbal Humour in Menander’s Dyskolos: From Linguistics to Dramaturgy -- , List of Contributors -- , Index Nominum et Rerum -- , Index Locorum -- , Index of Notable Greek Words and Phrases , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-129449-8

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783111295282

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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781107705890 (ebook)

Series Statement: Cambridge classical studies

Content: This book argues that New Comedy has a far richer performance texture than has previously been recognised. Offering close readings of all the major plays of Menander, it shows how intertextuality - the sustained dialogue of New Comedy performance with the diverse ideological, philosophical, literary and theatrical discourses of contemporary polis culture - is crucial in creating semantic depth and thus offsetting the impression that the plots are simplistic love stories with no political or ideological resonances. It also explores how the visual aspect of the plays ('opsis') is just as important as any verbal means of signification - a phenomenon termed 'intervisuality', examining in particular depth the ways in which the mask can infuse various systems of reference into the play. Masks like the panchrēstos neaniskos (the 'all-perfect youth'), for example, are now full of meaning; thus, with their ideologically marked physiognomies, they can be strong instigators of literary and cultural allusion.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Introduction -- 1. Menander's New Comedy between reality and textuality -- 2. New performance: visuality and intervisuality in Menander -- 3. Of Greeks and others: mask, character and action in New Comedy -- 4. Of mice and (young) men: the mask as inter-face -- 5. A few good men: the panchrēstos mask and the politics of perfection.

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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

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Format: XIII, 161 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 24 cm.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0-313-27216-6

Series Statement: Contributions in drama and theatre studies 67

Note: Foreword / Josh Beer, Christopher Innes and Simon Williams -- 1. A Comic Tradition: The Search for New Comedy -- 2. Menander in Time and Place -- 3. Theatre and Society -- 4. The Maker of Plays -- 5. Menander's People -- 6. Menander's Legacy -- Appendix 1 A Summary of Plutarch's Comparison between Aristophanes and Menander -- Appendix 2 Speaking of the Play -- Appendix 3 Famous Lost Words -- Appendix 4 Menander at the Getty / J. Michael Walton

Language: English

Subjects: Ancient Studies

Keywords: v342-v291 Menander ; Komödientheorie

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Format: 1 online resource (xi, 311 pages) : , illustrations, maps

ISBN: 1405137630 , 9781405137638 , 1281214248 , 9781281214249 , 9780470776209 , 047077620X

Series Statement: Blackwell guides to classical literature

Content: This Blackwell Guide provides a broad-ranging introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth to the third century bc. All three genres of Greek drama are discussed - tragedy, comedy, and satyr play - as well as the five surviving playwrights - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, together with brief entries on lost playwrights. The Guide also addresses contextual issues, such as: the origins of the dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals, the theater, and the performers; the relationship between drama and the worship of Dionysos; the political dimension; and how to read and watch Greek drama. The final section consists of 46 one-page synopses of each of the surviving plays.

Note: 1. Aspects of ancient Greek drama -- Drama -- The dramatic festivals -- Drama and Dionysos -- The theatrical space -- The performance -- Drama and the Polis -- 2. Greek tragedy -- On the nature of Greek tragedy -- Aeschylus -- Sophokles -- Euripides -- The other tragedians -- 3. The satyr-play -- 4. Greek comedy -- Origins -- Old Comedy -- The generations of Old Comedy -- Aristophanes -- Middle Comedy -- Menander and New Comedy -- 5. Approaching Greek drama -- Textual criticism and commentary -- New criticism -- Structuralism -- Myth and "version" -- Ritual and drama -- Psychoanalytic approaches -- Gender studies -- Performance criticism -- 6. Play synopses -- Aeschylus' Persians (Persae, Persai) -- Aeschylus' Seven (Seven against Thebes) -- Aeschylus' Suppliants (Suppliant women, Hiketides) -- Aeschylus' Oresteia -- Aeschylus' Agamemnon -- Aeschylus' Libation-bearers (Choephoroe) -- Aeschylus' Eumenides (Furies) -- Aeschylus' Prometheus bound (Prometheus Vinctus, Prometheus Desmotes) -- Sophokles' Ajax (Aias) -- Sophokles' Antigone -- Sophokles' Trachinian women (Trachiniai, Women of Trachis) -- Sophokles' Oedipus Tyrannos (King Oedipus, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the King) -- Sophokles' Elektra (Electra) -- Sophokles' Philoktetes (Philoctetes) -- Sophokles' Oedipus at Kolonos (Colonus) -- Euripides' Alkestis (Alcestis) -- Euripides' Medea -- Euripides' Children of Herakles (Heraclidae, Herakleidai) -- Euripides' Hippolytos -- Euripides' Andromache -- Euripides' Hecuba (Hekabe) -- Euripides' Suppliant women (Suppliants, Hiketides) -- Euripides' Electra (Electra) -- Euripides' Herakles (Hercules Furens, The madness of Herakles) -- Euripides' Trojan women (Trades) -- Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians (Iphigeneia in Tauris) -- Euripides' Ion -- Euripides' Helen -- Euripides' Phoenician women (Phoinissai) -- Euripides' Orestes -- Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis -- Euripides' Bacchae (Bacchants) -- Euripides' Cyclops -- [Euripides'] Rhesos -- Aristophanes' Acharnians -- Aristophanes' Knights (Hippeis, Equites, Horsemen) -- Aristophanes' Wasps (Sphekes, Vespae) -- Aristophanes' Peace (Pax, Eirene) -- Aristophanes' Clouds (Nubes, Nephelai) -- Aristophanes' Birds (Ornithes, Aves) -- Aristophanes' Lysistrate -- Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria (Thesmophoriazousai) -- Aristophanes' Frogs (Ranae, Batrachoi) -- Aristophanes' Assembly-women (Ekklesiazousai) -- Aristophanes' Wealth (Ploutos) -- Menander's The grouch (Old Cantankerous, Dyskolos) -- Menander's Samian woman (Samia) or Marriage-contract. , English.

Additional Edition: Print version: Storey, Ian Christopher, 1946- Guide to ancient Greek drama. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005 ISBN 1405102144

Additional Edition: ISBN 1405102152

Language: English

Keywords: Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Electronic books. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Handbooks and manuals. ; Handbooks and manuals. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Electronic books. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Handbooks and manuals. ; Handbooks and manuals. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Electronic books. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Handbooks and manuals. ; Handbooks and manuals.

DOI: 10.1002/9780470776209

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Note: Aus: John Rylands Libr.: Bulletin ; 42

Language: English

Subjects: Ancient Studies

Keywords: v342-v291 Menander ; Textgeschichte

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780674991477 , 9780674995062 , 9780674995840

Series Statement: Loeb Classical Library 132

Content: Menander (?344/3-292/1 BCE), the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays, of which one complete play, substantial portions of six others, and smaller but interesting fragments have been recovered. The complete play, Dyskolos (The Peevish Fellow), won first prize in Athens in 317 BCE, 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 BCE, 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

Content: v. I. Aspis. Georgos. Dis exapaton. Dyskolos. Encheiridion. Epitrepontes -- v. II. Heros. Theophoroumene. Karchedonios. Kitharistes. Kolax. Koneiazomenai. Leukadia. Misoumenos. Perikeiromene. Perinthia -- v. III. Samia. Sikyonioi. Synaristosai. Phasma. Unidentified fragments

Note: Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages , Mode of access: World Wide Web. , Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674991477(v.1)

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674995062(v.2)

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780674995840(v.3)

Additional Edition: Print version Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1979

Language: English

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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

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

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 195 pages) , Illustrationen

Edition: First edition

ISBN: 9781350103139 , 9781472528094 , 9781472528063

Series Statement: Classical literature and society

Content: "This new study of Menander casts fresh light not only on the techniques of the playwright but also on the literary and historical contexts of the plays. Menander (342/1-292/1 BCE) wrote over a hundred popular comedies, several of which were adapted by Plautus and Terence. Through them, he was a major influence on Shakespeare and Molière. However, his work survived only in excerpts and quotation until some significant texts reappeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on papyrus. The mystery of their loss and rediscovery has raised key questions surrounding the transmission of these and other Greek texts. Theatrical masks from the fourth century BCE discovered on the island of Lipari now also provide important material with which this book examines how the plays were originally performed. A detailed investigation of their historical setting is offered which engages with recent debates on the importance of social status and citizenship in Menander's plays. The techniques of characterization are also examined, with particular focus on women, slaves and power relationships in his Epitrepontes. It appears that the audience was invited, sometimes subversively, behind the mask of this sophisticated comedy to discover that people do not always conform to literary expectations and social norms."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Content: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Treasure on the Rock: Menander and the masks and figurines from Lipari -- 2. All the World's a Stage: Menander in performance -- 3. Alexander, Aristophanes and Beyond: Menander in context -- 4. Women in Epitrepontes: Habrotonon and Pamphile -- 5. Slaves in Epitrepontes: Habrotonon, Onesimos, Syros and Daos -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Heap, Angela M. Behind the mask London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ISBN 9781472534927

Language: English

Keywords: Menander v342-v291 ; Komödie ; Frau ; Sklave

DOI: 10.5040/9781350103139

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ISBN: 9781350023673 , 9781350023659 , 9781350023666

Series Statement: Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions

Uniform Title: Epitrepontes

Content: Preface -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Menander the Athenian -- 2. Menander and New Comedy -- 3. What We Know About Epitrepontes , and How We Know It -- 4. What Happens in Epitrepontes -- 5. Rape, Marriage, Legitimacy, Citizenship and Child Exposure -- 6. Characters -- 7. Structural Patterns -- 8. Literary and Intellectual Background -- 9. The Next Twenty-Three Centuries -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Content: "This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander's comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), arguably the most exquisitely crafted of his better-preserved plays. It explains what we know about the play, how we know it, and how far we can tentatively fill in the gaps in our knowledge. Sommerstein analyses the nature of the dramatic genre (Athenian New Comedy) to which Epitrepontes belongs. He assesses the plot and the characters, every one of whom makes an essential contribution to the uplifting outcome, and the social and ethical assumptions that dramatist and audience shared. As well as looking at the influences of earlier drama and of contemporary philosophical and popular thought, he considers the afterlife of Menandrian comedy in general and of Epitrepontes in particular, both in antiquity and in modern times, but also in the long period in between, when Menander was the great dramatist whose plays were thought to have been irrevocably lost"--

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9781350226685

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Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.5040/9781350023673

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Author information: Sommerstein, Alan H. 1947-