num_pages: 352
description: The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of others survive. Until the twentieth century he was known to us only by short quotations inancient authors. Since 1907 papyri found in the sand of Egypt have brought to light more and more fragments and in 1958 the papyrus text of a complete play was published, The Bad-Tempered Man (Dyskolos). His romantic comedies deal with the lives of ordinary Athenian families. This new versetranslation is accurate and highly readable, providing a consecutive text by using surviving words in the damaged papyri.
language: English
title: The Plays and Fragments
titlecomplete: The Plays and Fragments
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Classical Studies, Plays, Ancient History, Ancient, Greece, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 707
publisher: Oxford University Press