The plays and fragments

The plays and fragments / Menander ; translated with explanatory notes by Maurice Balme ; with an introduction by Peter Brown.

"In ancient times Menander (341-290 BC) was the most admired and the most quoted of the writers of Attic New Comedy. He wrote over a hundred plays but until this century was known to us only by short quotations in ancient authors. Since 1907 papyri found in the sand of Egypt have brought to lig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Menander, of Athens
Other Authors: Balme, M. G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Series:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Menander, > of Athens > Translations into English.
Greece > Drama.
Drama.
Translations.
Comedies.
Online Access:2001.
Publisher description
Uniform Title:Works.
Table of Contents:
  • The Plays and Fragments of Menander: (these are arranged in an order which puts the more complete plays and fragments first)
  • The Bad-Tempered Man (Dyskolos)
  • The Girl from Samos (Samia)
  • The Arbitration (Epitrepontes)
  • The Shield (Aspis)
  • The Girl with the Shaven Head (Perikeiromene)
  • The Man she Hated (Misoumenos)
  • The Man from Sikyon (Sikyonios)
  • Twice a Swindler (Dis Exapaton)
  • The Hero (Heros)
  • The Lyre-Player (Kitharistes)
  • The Farmer (Georgos)
  • The Apparition (Phasma)
  • The Flatterer (Kolax)
  • The Girl Possessed (Theophoroumene)
  • The Girl from Leukas (Leukadia)
  • The Girl from Perinthos (Perinthia)
  • The Man from Carthage (Karchedonios)
  • The Women drinking Hemlock (Koneiazomenai)
  • Title Unknown
  • A Selection of Fragments Quoted by Other Authors
  • Fragments of Doubtful Authorship.

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