Details

Subject(s)

• English drama—Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600—History and criticism [Browse]

Translator

• Balme, M. G. [Browse]

Contributor

• Brown, Peter, 1784-1863 [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics. [More in this series]
• Oxford World's Classics Series

Summary note

This translation of the work of Menander (341-290 BC), the most admired and quoted Greek playwright, follows the text closely, but attempts to create a consecutive text. His plays are romantic comedies based on the lives of Athenian families.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 15, 2018).
• Description based on print version record.

Language note

Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Select Bibliograpy
• Translator's Note
• The Plays and Fragments of Menander
• The Bad-Tempered Man (Dyskolos)
• Characters
• Silent characters:
• Prologue
• ACT 1
• CHORAL INTERLUDE
• ACT 2
• ACT 3
• ACT 4
• ACT 5
• The Girl from Samas (Samia)
• The Arbitration (Epitrepontes)
• The Shield (Aspis)
• ACT3
• The Girl with the Shaven Head (Perikeiromene)
• Characters who do not appear in surviving fragments:
• The Man she Hated (Misoumenos)
• The Man from Sikyon (Sikyonios)
• ACT4
• Twice a Swindler (Dis Exapaton)
• ACT 3(?)
• The Hero (Heras)
• Cast in order of appearance (according to the cast list):
• The Lyre-Player (Kitharistes)
• Characters (as far as is known)
• The Farmer (Georgos)
• The Apparition (Phasma)
• Characters not appearing in our fragments:.
• The Flatterer (Kolax)
• THE FIRST EXTRACT
• THE SECOND EXTRACT
• THE THIRD EXTRACT
• THE FOURTH EXTRACT
• THE FIFTH EXTRACT
• The Girl Possessed (Theophoroumene)
• The Girl from Leukas (Leukadia)
• The Girl from Perinthos (Perinthia)
• Characters in the papyrus fragtnent
• The Manftom Carthage (Karchedonios)
• Characters in our fragnients
• The Women drinking Hemlock (Koneiazomenai)
• Title Unknown
• A Selection of Fragments Quoted by Other Authors
• A. Qyotations from Named Plays
• 1 and 2. The Flute-Girl (Auletris)
• 3. The Superstitious Man (Deisidaitnon)
• 4 and 5. The Doorkeeper (Thyroros)
• 6. The Priestess (Hiereia)
• 7. The Men of Imbros
• 8. The Groom, (Hippokomos)
• 9 and 10. The Helsrmen (Kubernetat)
• 11. Drunkenness (Methe)
• 12 and 13. The Misogynist (Misogynes)
• 14 and 15. The Ship's Captain (Naukleros)
• 16 and 17.Anger (Orge)
• 18, 19, 20, 21. The Necklace (Plokion)
• 22. Trophonios
• 23, 24, 25. The Changeling (Hypobolimaios)
• 26. The False Hercules (Pseudherakles)
• B. Fragments from Unnamed Plays Attributed to Menander
• 1. Quoted by Stobaeus, Eclogae3.38. 29 (538 = K-A 76I)
• 2. Quoted by Plutarch, On Love,fragment 134 (568 = K-A 79I)
• 3. Quoted by Stobaeus, Eclogae 4. 22. 119 (58I = K-A 804)
• 4. Quoted by Stobaeus, Eclogae 4. 23. II (592 = K-A 815)
• 5. Quoted by Stobaeus, Eclogae 4. 29. 6a and 30 (612 = K-A 835)
• 6. Quoted by Stobaeus, Eclogae 4. 31. 30 (614 = K-A 838)
• 7. Quoted by Stobaeus, Eclogae 4. 34. 7 (620 = K-A 844)
• 8. Quoted by Alexander, de figuris II (656 = K-A 420)
• 9. Quoted by Julian qf Halicamassus, Commentary on job (714 = K-A 500)
• 10. Quoted by Ps.-Lucian, Amores 43 (718 = K-A 508)
• 11. Papyrus Friburgensis 12 (722 = K-A 1027)
• 12. Ps.-Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 103c (740 = K-A 602).
• 13. Plutarch, de laude ipsius (on boasting) 547c (745 = K-A 607)
• 14. Porphyry, de abstinentia 4. 15 (754 = K-A 631)
• 15. Strabo 7. 296 (794, 765 = K-A 877
• Fragments of Doubiful Authorship
• 1. Papyrus Antinoopolis 15 (K-A 1084)
• 2. Papyrus Didot 1 (K-A 1000)
• 3. Papyrus Didot II (K-A 1001)
• 4. Papyrus Gharan II (K-A 1017)
• Explanatory Notes
• The Man from Silryon (Silryonios)
• The Fanner (Georgos)
• The Man from Carthage (Karchedonios)
• Title unknown
• A. Selection of Fragments Quoted by Other Authors
• A. Quototations from Named Plays
• Fragments of Doubtful Authorship
• OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS.

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ISBN

• 0-19-263800-9
• 0-19-186451-X

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