Menander in Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780367868420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 286 str.

Alan H. Sommerstein

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The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light drama that has continued to the present day. Thanks to a long and continuing series of papyrus discoveries, Menander has now been able to take his place among the major surviving ancient Greek dramatists. In this book, si

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Introduction Alan H. Sommerstein  Part 1. Context: Society (Gender, Slavery, War)  1. Money and Love in Menandrian Comedy Horst-Dieter Blume  2. Menander and the Pallake Alan H. Sommerstein  3. Rethinking Rape in Menander’s Comedy and Athenian Life: Modern Comparative Evidence Sharon L. James  4. Relationships among Slaves in Menander Eftychia Bathrellou  5. Military Culture and Menander Mario Lamagna  Part 2. Context: Dramatic Tradition 6. Staging and Constructing the Divine in Menander Sarah Miles  7. The Unity of Time in Menander Robert Germany  8. Aspects of Recognition in Perikeiromene and Other Plays William D. Furley  9. Failing Communication in Menander and Others Gunther Martin  Part 3. Context: Philosophy and Medical Thought  10. Menander and the Peripatos: New Insights into an Old Question Angelo Casanova  11. Menander, Aristotle, Chance and Accidental Ignorance Valeria Cinaglia 12. Melancholic Lovers in Menander Christophe Cusset  Part 4. Context: Posterity  13. On the Reception of Menander in the Imperial Period Orestes Karavas and Jean-Luc Vix  14. ‘Not Even Menander Would Use this Word!’: Perceptions of
Menander’s Language in Greek Lexicography Olga Tribulato  15. An Ideal Reception: Oscar Wilde, Menander’s Comedy, and the Context of Victorian Classical Studies Serena Witzke  16. Menander’s Epitrepontes in Modern Greek Theatre: The Poetics of its Reception and Performance Stavroula Kiritsi

O autorze

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek in the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published extensively on Greek tragedy and comedy, producing editions and/or translations of complete or fragmentary plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes and Menander, as well as co-authoring two volumes on the oath in ancient Greece.