Menander Volume I: Aspis Georgos Dis Exapaton Dyskolos Encheiridion Epitrepontes Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Biographies And True

The Master Of New Comedy Menander (?344 3–292 1 Bc) Athens Leading Playwright Wrote More Than 100 Plays Many His Comedies Were Adapted By Roman Dramatists Middle Ages However Works Lost Then At End Nineteenth Century Papyrus Texts Preserved From Antiquity Dry Heat Egypt Began To Be Discovered These Have Yielded So Far One Play Virtually Complete (Dyskolos) Large Continuous Portions Four (Aspis Epitrepontes Perikeiromene Samia) And Sizable Chunks Others Remains A Paradox: Artificial Plots Based On Unlikely But Conventional Coincidences Enlivened Individualized Characters Realistic Situations Times Deeply Moving Dialogue Volume I Geoffrey Arnott’s Three-Volume Edition Contains Six Including Dyskolos (The Peevish Fellow) Which Won First Prize In 317 Bc Dis Exapaton (Twice Swindler) Original Plautus’ Two Bacchises Ten Are Ii Among Them Recently Published Fragments Misoumenos Man She Hated) Sympathetically Presents Flawed Relationship Soldier Captive Girl Surviving Half With Her Hair Cut Short) Mistaken Identity Lovers’ Quarrel Iii Begins Samia Woman Samos) Has Come Down Us Nearly Here Too Very Substantial Extant Sikyonioi Sicyonians) Phasma Apparition) As Well Synaristosai (Women Lunching Together) Cistellaria Was Σελίδες: 592 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0101 Διαστάσεις: 10 8X10 8Cm