Search results
Jun 6, 2002 · Until the appearance of this collection, only one single-volume translation included the bulk of the extant writings of Menander. 1 Norma Miller’s 1987 Penguin volume nicely translates all the texts from F.H. Sandbach’s 1972 OCT Menandri Reliquiae Selectae and has been the only book suitable for use as a classroom text. 2 W.G. Arnott has completed his superb three-volume Loeb edition of ...
Menander’s play epitomized what soon became known as “New Comedy.”. This genre of theater had a number of standard features, which is especially helpful for understanding a play like Epitrepontes, whose script remains fragmentary. This overview, therefore, surveys the generic features of New Comedy and then narrows in on the action of the ...
Menander of ATHENS. Menander. of ATHENS. （ *Me/nandros ), of ATHENS, the most distinguished poet of the New Comedy, was the son of Diopeithes and Hegesistrate, and flourished in the time of the successors of Alexander . He was born in Ol. 109. 3, or B. C. 342-1, which was also the birth-year of Epicurus; only the birth of Menander was ...
Menander. Menander of Athens was the foremost representative of Greek New Comedy; he was born in Athens around 342 b.c. and died, allegedly by drowning in the harbour of the Piraeus, around 292 b.c. During his lifetime he wrote around 96 plays, competing with his two main rivals Diphilus and Philemon. Menander, for a long time, was only known ...
Menander's empire survived him in a fragmented manner until the last Greek king Strato II disappeared around 10 C.E. Menander was the first Indo-Greek ruler to introduce the representation of Athena Alkidemos ("Athena, saviour of the people") on his coins, probably in reference to a similar statue of Athena Alkidemos in Pella, capital of Macedon.
Feb 22, 2024 · Menander (Gr. Μένανδρος Menandros, 342–291 BC) was an ancient Greek poet, the principal representative of New Comedy and comedy of characters. He hailed from a family that provided him with a careful upbringing and education. He was a student of Theophrastus and a friend of Epicurus, with whom he likely served in the military.
Dec 10, 2015 · Preview. There is much more to Menander’s bourgeois comedy, with its stock characters and predictable plots, than meets a reader’s eye. Petrides positions himself against entrenched views of Greek New Comedy as a tired genre, even though recent work on Menander by specialists has progressed well beyond such superficial impressions. 1 This engaging study accounts for the persistence of the ...
