Format:
XVI, 286 S
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Ill
ISBN:
9780415843713
Series Statement:
Routledge monographs in classical studies 16
Content:
Context: society (gender, slavery, war) -- Money and love in Menandrian comedy / Horst-Dieter Blume -- Menander and the Pallake / Alan H. Sommerstein -- Rethinking rape in Menander's comedy and Athenian life: modern comparative evidence / Sharon L. James -- Relationships among slaves in Menander / Eftychia Bathrellou -- Military culture and Menander / Mario Lamagna -- Context: dramatic tradition -- Staging and constructing the divine in Menander / Sarah Miles -- The unity of time in Menander / Robert Germany -- Aspects of recognition in Perikeiromene and other plays / William D. Furley -- Failing communication in Menander and others / Gunther Martin -- Context: philosophy and medical thought -- Menander and the peripatos: new insights into an old question / Angelo Casanova -- Menander, Aristotle, chance and accidental ignorance / Valeria Cinaglia -- Melancholic lovers in Menander / Christophe Cusset -- Context: posterity -- On the reception of Menander in the imperial period / Orestes Karavast and Jean-Luc Vix -- "Not even Menander would use this word!": perceptions of Menander's language in Greek lexicography / Olga Tribulato -- An ideal reception: Oscar Wilde, Menander's comedy, and the context of Victorian classical studies / Serena Witzke -- Menander's Epitrepontes in modern Greek theatre: the poetics of its reception and performance / Stavroula Kiritsi
Content:
PART III Context: Philosophy and Medical Thought10 Menander and the Peripatos: New Insights into an Old Question; 11 Menander, Aristotle, Chance and Accidental Ignorance; 12 Melancholic Lovers in Menander; PART IV Context: Posterity; 13 On the Reception of Menander in the Imperial Period; 14 'Not even Menander would use this word!': Perceptions of Menander's Language in Greek Lexicography; 15 An Ideal Reception: Oscar Wilde, Menander's Comedy and the Context of Victorian Classical Studies; 16 Menander's Epitrepontes in Modern Greek Theatre: The Poetics of Its Reception and Performance
Content:
ReferencesContributors; General Index; Index of passages
Content:
The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) and his contemporaries were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light drama that has continued to the present day. Yet for over a millennium, Menander's own plays were thought to have been completely lost. Thanks to a long and continuing series of papyrus discoveries, Menander has now been able to take his place among the major surviving ancient Greek dramatists alongside Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. In this book, sixteen contributors examine and explore the Menander we know today in light of the var
Note:
based on the international conference with the same title held at Lincoln Hall in the Univeristy of Nottingham, 23 - 25 July 2012
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Context: society (gender, slavery, war)Money and love in Menandrian comedy
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Menander and the Pallake
,
Rethinking rape in Menander's comedy and Athenian life: modern comparative evidence
,
Relationships among slaves in Menander
,
Military culture and Menander
,
Context: dramatic tradition ; Staging and constructing the divine in Menander
,
The unity of time in Menander
,
Aspects of recognition in Perikeiromene and other plays
,
Failing communication in Menander and others
,
Context: philosophy and medical thought ; Menander and the peripatos: new insights into an old question
,
Menander, Aristotle, chance and accidental ignorance
,
Melancholic lovers in Menander
,
Context: posterity ; On the reception of Menander in the imperial period
,
"Not even Menander would use this word!": perceptions of Menander's language in Greek lexicography
,
An ideal reception: Oscar Wilde, Menander's comedy, and the context of Victorian classical studies
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Menander's Epitrepontes in modern Greek theatre: the poetics of its reception and performance
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781135014643
Language:
English
Keywords:
Menander v342-v291
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Sommerstein, Alan H. 1947-
