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Menander: The Bad Tempered Man
Stanley Ireland
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Description for Menander: The Bad Tempered Man
Paperback. Though in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to Homer, his plays were for centuries thought to be irretrievably lost. Only in this century have instances begun to re-emerge from the sands of Egypt, and it was not until 1958 that a complete play, Dyskolos or The Bad-Tempered Man, came to light. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Though in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to Homer, his plays were for centuries thought to be irretrievably lost. Only in this century have instances begun to re-emerge from the sands of Egypt, and it was not until 1958 that a complete play, Dyskolos or The Bad-Tempered Man, came to light. With this we can now gauge in full the skill that Menander brought to his works, even in the early phase of his career. In preparing this edition, the author aims to make accessible ... Read more
Though in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to Homer, his plays were for centuries thought to be irretrievably lost. Only in this century have instances begun to re-emerge from the sands of Egypt, and it was not until 1958 that a complete play, Dyskolos or The Bad-Tempered Man, came to light. With this we can now gauge in full the skill that Menander brought to his works, even in the early phase of his career. In preparing this edition, the author aims to make accessible ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856686115
SKU
V9780856686115
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Ref
99-50
About Stanley Ireland
Stanley Ireland is Lecturer in Classics at Warwick University. He has written on such diverse subjects as Aeschylus, Menander, Roman Britain, Homer, Apollodorus and computing in the Classics.
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