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.
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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.
Imprint | Harvard University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Loeb Classical Library |
Release date | 1979 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 1979 |
Authors | Menander |
Editors | William Geoffrey Arnott |
Dimensions | 162 x 108 x 31mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 592 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-99147-7 |
Barcode | 9780674991477 |
Languages | value |
Subtitles | value |
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LSN | 0-674-99147-8 |