Menander, Volume 1
Contributors: W. G. Arnott (Translator)
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library
Published: January 1, 1979
Language: eng; grc
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780674991477
Subjects: Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Menander,; Drama; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Translations into English; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Menander; Comedies; Greece; of Athens
Description: Menander (?344/3-292/1 BCE), the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays, of which one complete play, substantial portions of six others, and smaller but interesting fragments have been recovered. The complete play, Dyskolos (The Peevish Fellow), won first prize in Athens in 317 BCE.