Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies Peace, Money, the God, and Samia

ISBN-13: 9781624661860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 256 str.

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"Three Comedies" features the work of three dramatic geniuses of the glorious, no-holds-barred tradition of ancient Athenian comedy. Here Aristophanes, the eight-hundred-pound gorilla of Old and Middle Comedy meets Menander, elephant in the room of New Comedy, in a match made possible by Douglass Parker--if not Athenian exactly, or even ancient, possibly the maddest chameleon ever to absorb the true colors of an ancient choral song, transpose a lost pun, or channel a venerable, giant, dung-eating cockroach for the benefit of those who couldn t be there the first time.

Timothy J. Moore offers concise and informative introductions and notes to Parker s brilliant translation of Aristophanes' fantastical "Peace" and "Money, the God" and Menander s lively, domestic "Samia"--and includes, as a bonus, Parker's James Constantine Lecture at the University of Virginia, "A Desolation Called "Peace" Trials of an Aristophanic Translator.""