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1 online resource (303 pages) |
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies |
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Routledge monographs in classical studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Introduction; PART I Context: Society (Gender, Slavery, War); 1 Money and Love in Menandrian Comedy; 2 Menander and the Pallake; 3 Reconsidering Rape in Menander's Comedy and Athenian Life: Modern Comparative Evidence; 4 Relationships among Slaves in Menander; 5 Military Culture and Menander; PART II Context: Dramatic Tradition; 6 Staging and Constructing the Divine in Menander; 7 The Unity of Time in Menander; 8 Aspects of Recognition in Perikeiromene and Other Plays; 9 Failing Communication in Menander and Others |
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PART III Context: Philosophy and Medical Thought10 Menander and the Peripatos: New Insights into an Old Question; 11 Menander, Aristotle, Chance and Accidental Ignorance; 12 Melancholic Lovers in Menander; PART IV Context: Posterity; 13 On the Reception of Menander in the Imperial Period; 14 'Not even Menander would use this word!': Perceptions of Menander's Language in Greek Lexicography; 15 An Ideal Reception: Oscar Wilde, Menander's Comedy and the Context of Victorian Classical Studies; 16 Menander's Epitrepontes in Modern Greek Theatre: The Poetics of Its Reception and Performance |
| Summary |
The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) and his contemporaries were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light drama that has continued to the present day. Yet for over a millennium, Menander's own plays were thought to have been completely lost. Thanks to a long and continuing series of papyrus discoveries, Menander has now been able to take his place among the major surviving ancient Greek dramatists alongside Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. In this book, sixteen contributors examine and explore the Menander we know today in |
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ReferencesContributors; General Index; Index of passages |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Menander, of Athens -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Menander, of Athens fast |
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DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135014643 |
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1135014647 |
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