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Menander: Epitrepontes (Paperback)
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Menander: Epitrepontes (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
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This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of
Menander's comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), arguably the
most exquisitely crafted of his better-preserved plays. It explains
what we know about the play, how we know it, and how far we can
tentatively fill in the gaps in our knowledge. Sommerstein analyses
the nature of the dramatic genre (Athenian New Comedy) to which
Epitrepontes belongs. He assesses the plot and the characters,
every one of whom makes an essential contribution to the uplifting
outcome, and the social and ethical assumptions that dramatist and
audience shared. As well as looking at the influences of earlier
drama and of contemporary philosophical and popular thought, he
considers the afterlife of Menandrian comedy in general and of
Epitrepontes in particular, both in antiquity and in modern times,
but also in the long period in between, when Menander was the great
dramatist whose plays were thought to have been irrevocably lost.
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