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1 online resource
ISBN:
9780674991477
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9780674995062
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9780674995840
Serie:
Loeb Classical Library 132
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages
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ISBN 9780674991477(v.1)
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ISBN 9780674995062(v.2)
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ISBN 9780674995840(v.3)
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Print version Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1979
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Menander v342-v291
