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The shield ; and, The Arbitration / Menander ; edited and translated by Stanley Ireland.
Liverpool University Press Aris & Phillips Classical Texts Online Available online
Liverpool University Press Aris & Phillips Classical Texts Online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Menander, of Athens, author.
- Series:
- Aris & Phillips classical texts.
- Liverpool scholarship online.
- Aris & Phillips classical texts
- Liverpool scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Plays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Greek drama (Comedy)--Translations into English.
- Menander, of Athens--Criticism and interpretation.
- Menander, of Athens--Translations into English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- Parallel Ancient Greek texts and English translations, with English introductions and notes.
- Summary:
- What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander? Thus the judgement of Aristophanes of Byzantium, & in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. Yet for centuries thereafter the plays were thought to be irretrievably lost, failing to become part of the canon of writers that generations of copyists deemed worthy of transmitting to us. It was only in the 20th century that large sections of the plays began to emerge from Egypt, enabling modern readers to gauge for themselves the correctness of earlier verdicts. Following on from the author's edition of Menander's 'Bad-Tempered Man', the present volume aims to provide readers with ready access to the playwright's consummate sophistication in dramatic technique through two, albeit incomplete, plays, 'The Shield' & Arbitration.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 25, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Menander, of Athens. Aspis.
- Menander, of Athens. Aspis. English.
- Menander, of Athens. Epitrepontes.
- Menander, of Athens. Epitrepontes. English.
- ISBN:
- 1-80034-314-0
- 1-80034-658-1
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