Spectacular new finds, many of them in Egypt at Oxyrhynchus, have
dramatically expanded the extant work of Menander since Allinson's
one volume Loeb edition was published in 1921. This new Loeb
Menander is three times the size of the Allinson volume. W. G.
Arnott, internationally recognized Menander expert, brings us all
of the work of the great Hellenistic comic playwright that is now
available. A Greek text based on careful study of the discovered
papyri faces a skillful translation that fits today's tastes, with
full explanatory notes.
Volume II contains the surviving portions of ten Menander plays.
Among these are the recently published fragments of "Misoumenos"
("The Man She Hated"), which sympathetically presents the flawed
relationship of a soldier and a captive girl; and the surviving
half of "Perikeiromene" ("The Girl with Her Hair Cut Short"), a
comedy of mistaken identity and lovers' quarrel.
So influential in antiquity--his plays were adapted for the
Roman stage by Plautus and Terence--Menander's comic art can at
last be fully known and enjoyed again. It is a comedy that focuses
on the hazards of love and trials of family life--as is typical of
New Comedy, a style of which Menander is the leading writer.
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