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Menander: The Shield and The Arbitration (Paperback)
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Menander: The Shield and The Arbitration (Paperback)
Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
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'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except
to see Menander'?Thus the judgement of Aristophanes of Byzantium,
and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked
second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. Yet for centuries
thereafter the plays were thought to be irretrievably lost, failing
to become part of the canon of writers that generations of copyists
deemed worthy of transmitting to us. It was only in the 20th
century that large sections of the plays began to emerge from the
sands of Egypt, enabling modern readers to gauge for themselves the
correctness of earlier verdicts. Following on from the author's
edition of Menander's Bad-Tempered Man ( dyskolos ) the present
volume aims to provide readers with ready access to the
playwright's consummate sophistication in dramatic technique
through two, albeit incomplete, plays, The Shield ( aspis ) and
arbitration ( epitrepontes ). As before, the Greek text is
accompanied by a translation aimed at providing a version that is
readable, while at the same time remaining close enough to the
original to make comparison of the two a feasible proposition. The
commentary, in turn, concentrates upon dramatic development,
providing the reader with pointers to appreciating the playwright's
often subtle techniques of both dramatic development and character
portrayal. Stanley Ireland is Reader in Classics and Ancient
History at the University of Warwick. He has written on such
diverse topics as Menander, Roman Britain and Ancient Numismatics.
He is also editor of Terence's The Mother-in-Law in this series.
Greek text with facing-page translation, introduction and
commentary.
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