Menander, Volume III: Samia. Sikyonioi. Synaristosai. Phasma. Unidentified Fragments [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Menander

The master of New Comedy.

Menander (?344/3-292/1 BC) of Athens, the leading playwright of the New Comedy, wrote more than 100 plays. Many of his comedies were adapted by Roman dramatists. By the middle ages, however, his works were lost. Then, at the end of the nineteenth century, papyrus texts, preserved from antiquity by the dry heat of Egypt, began to be discovered. These have yielded so far one play virtually complete (Dyskolos),...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674995848
• ISBN13: 9780674995840
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.5" x 6.7"