Menander, in 3 vol. / Loeb Classical Library

Loeb Classical Library, 132/459. Menander of Athens. In three volumes. Translated by W. G. Arnott (vol. 1 - 2) and F. C. Allinson (vol. 3).

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  • Condition / Etat: very good, dust jacket with some shelf wear, some spotting, vol. 3 ex library copy/ très bon état, minimes traces d'usures, petites taches, vol. 3 exemplaire de bibliothèque.
  • Volumes : 3 volumes.
  • Binding / Reliure : original green titled cloth with fine dust jacket, cartonné avec jaquette.
  • Format : In-16 / 17 x 11 cm.
  • Pages : LV, 526, 8; X, 501; XXXI, 539, 8 pp.
  • Editor : Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, Heinemann.
  • Date : 1964 - 1996.
  • Language / Langue: Ancient Grec and English on opposite pages / Bilingue grec et anglais.

    Menander, the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays. By the Middle Ages they had all been lost. Happily, papyrus finds in Egypt during the past century have recovered one complete play, substantial portions of six others, and smaller but still interesting fragments. Menander was highly regarded in antiquity, and his plots, set in Greece, were adapted for the Roman world by Plautus and Terence. W. Geoffrey Arnott’s new Loeb Classical Library edition is in three volumes.
    Volume I contains six plays, including the only complete one extant, Dyskolos (The Peevish Fellow), which won first prize in Athens in 317 BCE, and Dis Expaton (Twice a Swindler), the original of Plautus’s Two Bacchises.
    Volume II contains the surviving portions of ten Menander plays. Among these are the recently published fragments of Misoumenos (The Man She Hated), which sympathetically presents the flawed relationship of a soldier and a captive girl; and the surviving half of Perikeiromene (The Girl with Her Hair Cut Short), a comedy of mistaken identity and lovers’ quarrel.
    Volume III makes not part of the edition in three volumes. It contains The Abritants, The Girl from Samos, The Girl who gets her hair cut short and The Hero. Apart from this it contains a general introduction, extant writings, a bibliography, fragments and an unidentified comedy.

    Arnott’s edition of the great Hellenistic playwright has garnered wide praise for making these fragmentary texts more accesible, elucidating their dramatic movement.


    The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.
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Condition Usado - Muy bueno
lengua Reino Unido
Illustrado No
Publicaton Date 1 ene. 1979
Año 1979
Autor / Cartógrafo / Fotografo Menandros
Editor Harvard University Press
Primera edición No
Edicion firmada No
encuadernación firmada No
Armas y Blasones No
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