Authors: Menander, Norma Miller (Translator), Norma Miller
ISBN-13: 9780140445015, ISBN-10: 0140445013
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: February 1988
Edition: Reissue
The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of others survive. Until the twentieth century he was known to us only by short quotations in ancient authors. Since 1907 papyri found in the sand of Egypt have brought to light more and more fragments and in 1958 the papyrus text of a complete play was published, The Bad-Tempered Man (Dyskolos). His romantic comedies deal with the lives of ordinary Athenian families. This new verse translation is accurate and highly readable, providing a consecutive text by using surviving words in the damaged papyri.
Introduction | ||
Select Bibliography | ||
Translator's Note | ||
The Plays and Fragments of Menander: (these are arranged in an order which puts the more complete plays and fragments first) | ||
The Bad-Tempered Man (Dyskolos) | 3 | |
The Girl from Samos (Samia) | 44 | |
The Arbitration (Epitrepontes) | 81 | |
The Shield (Aspis) | 116 | |
The Girl with the Shaven Head (Perikeiromene) | 140 | |
The Man she Hated (Misoumenos) | 163 | |
The Man from Sikyon (Sikyonios) | 181 | |
Twice a Swindler (Dis Exapaton) | 199 | |
The Hero (Heros) | 206 | |
The Lyre-Player (Kitharistes) | 213 | |
The Farmer (Georgos) | 219 | |
The Apparition (Phasma) | 226 | |
The Flatterer (Kolax) | 232 | |
The Girl Possessed (Theophoroumene) | 241 | |
The Girl from Leukas (Leukadia) | 246 | |
The Girl from Perinthos (Perinthia) | 249 | |
The Man from Carthage (Karchedonios) | 252 | |
The Women drinking Hemlock (Koneiazomenai) | 255 | |
Title Unknown | 257 | |
A Selection of Fragments Quoted by Other Authors | 263 | |
Fragments of Doubtful Authorship | 281 | |
Explanatory Notes | 294 |