Menander in Contexts

Author:   Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   16
ISBN:  

9780415843713


Pages:   286
Publication Date:   13 December 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   16
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9780415843713


ISBN 10:   0415843715
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   13 December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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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.

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