
Menander Reliquiae Selectae
F. H. Sandbach(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 12. July 1990
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372 pages
978-0-19-814737-4 (ISBN)
Description
Menander was the greatest writer of Attic New Comedy. He wrote prolifically in the late fourth century BC, and nearly one hundred titles of his plays are known. Due to the plays' exclusion from the Greek school curriculum in the fifth century AD and subsequent centuries mainly because they were not written in the classical Attic dialect, but koine, Menander's works were preserved only in the quotations of other authors. It was not until the twentieth century and the discoveries of papyri in Egypt that even a sizeable fragment of his work was available for study. Now we have one complete play, the Dyskolos (`the bad tempered man'), and considerable fragments from fourteen other plays. The plots of his plays are set in contemporary Athens and the surrounding countryside, and are concerned with the private lives of middle-class families. Menander's work is characterized by his sympathetic attitude to his characters who seem natural and their actions real, and by the resolutions to the problems in the plays which are achieved through generosity and understanding.
This Oxford Classical Text (first published in 1972) contains all the extant fragments of Menander's works, including all fragments recovered from quotation, and has been brought fully up to date with the inclusion of an appendix containing the latest discoveries.
This Oxford Classical Text (first published in 1972) contains all the extant fragments of Menander's works, including all fragments recovered from quotation, and has been brought fully up to date with the inclusion of an appendix containing the latest discoveries.
Reviews / Votes
`it is useful to have from Professor Sandbach a second edition which includes the new material ... The new material is handled with the editor's old skill and scholarship.'Classical Review
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Series
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
451 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-814737-4 (9780198147374)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Aspis; Georgus; dis expaton; Dyscolus; Epitrepontes; Heros; Theophorumene; Carchedouis; Citharista; Colax; Coneazomenae; Misumenus; Perikomene; Perinthia; Somia; Sicyonius; Phasma; Fabula incerta; fragmenta.