Menander Volume 1 MenanderPevná vazba
Menander Volume 1 MenanderPevná vazba Menander, the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays. Happily papyrus finds in Egypt during the past century have recovered one complete play,…
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Menander Volume 1 MenanderPevná vazba
Menander, the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays. 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. By the Middle Ages they had all been lost.
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. Menander was highly regarded in antiquity and his plots, set in Greece, were adapted for the Roman world by Plautus and Terence. Among these are the recently published fragments of Misoumenos (The Man She Hated), which sympathetically