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Classical Comedy by Menander, Aristophanes, Aristophanes Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence
Category: Classic Fiction
From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative "Birds", and Menander's "The Girl from Samos", which explores popular contem ...Show more
PLAYS & FRAGMENTS by MENANDER
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
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 in ancient author ...Show more
Plays and Fragments by Menander
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Menander (c. 341 291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek New Comedy, a dramatic style that moved away from the fantastical to focus upon the problems of ordinary Athenians. This collection contains the full text of Old Cantankerous' (Dyskolos), the only surviving complete example of New Comedy, as w ...Show more
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