Plays and Fragments
$29.65
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2004
Summary
Menander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek New Comedy, a dramatic style that moved away from the fantastical to focus upon the problems of ordinary Athenians. This collection contains the full text of ‘Old Cantankerous’ (Dyskolos), the only surviving complete example of New Comedy, as well as fragments from works including ‘The Girl from Samos’ and ‘The Rape of the Locks’, all of which are concerned with domestic catastrophes, the hazards of love and the trials of family lif…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140445015 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140445013 |
| Author: | Menander, Norma Miller |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2004 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Menander
Menander (341-290 BC) was the most distinguished author of Greek New Comedy. An Athenian of good family, he wrote over a hundred plays although only one survives intact today.
Norma Miller was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge and spent her life as a teacher of Greek and Latin languages and literature at the Royal Holloway College. She is now Reader Emeritus of the University of London.
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