Author: J. H. QuinceyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Notes on the Dyskolos of Menander
Author: J. H. QuinceyDyskolos
Author: Menander (of Athens.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The story of the grumpy, cantankerous old man, Knemon, and his attempts to prevent the wealthy young Athenian, Sostrates, from marrying his daughter, Myrrhine.
The Greek Aulularia
Author: W.E.J. KuiperPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004326995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
An Introduction to Menander
Author: Thomas Bertram Lonsdale WebsterPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719005909
Category : Greek drama
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A Short History of Greek Literature
Author: Jacqueline de RomillyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226143120
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.
Dyskolos
Author: MenanderReproducing Athens
Author: Susan LapePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400825911
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. Menander's romantic comedies--which focus on ordinary citizens who marry for love--are most often thought of as entertainments devoid of political content. Against the view, Susan Lape argues that Menander's comedies are explicitly political. His nationalistic comedies regularly conclude by performing the laws of democratic citizen marriage, thereby promising the generation of new citizens. His transnational comedies, on the other hand, defend polis life against the impinging Hellenistic kingdoms, either by transforming their representatives into proper citizen-husbands or by rendering them ridiculous, romantic losers who pose no real threat to citizen or city. In elaborating the political work of romantic comedy, this book also demonstrates the importance of gender, kinship, and sexuality to the making of democratic civic ideology. Paradoxically, by championing democratic culture against various Hellenistic outsiders, comedy often resists the internal status and gender boundaries on which democratic culture was based. Comedy's ability to reproduce democratic culture in scandalous fashion exposes the logic of civic inclusion produced by the contradictions in Athens's desperately politicized gender system. Combining careful textual analysis with an understanding of the context in which Menander wrote, Reproducing Athens profoundly changes the way we read his plays and deepens our understanding of Athenian democratic culture.
The Story of the Bodmer Papyri
Author: James M RobinsonPublisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227903501
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where the Nag Hammadi Codices had been discovered. Priests whom the author interviewed in the region told Robinson that the codices had once been in the possession of a priest in the town of Dishna, a bit further upstream than Nag Hammadi itself. Robinson found that this priest had not had the Nag Hammadi Codices but rather the Bodmer Papyri. For Dishna is where the monastery headquarters of the first monastic order was located. The Bodmer Papyri discovery consisted of all that was left of the library of the Pachomian monastic order: Coptic letters of Pachomius and very early Greek copies of Luke and John, perhaps donated when Athanasius was in hiding at the monastery. These treasures were preserved in a jar hidden in the mountain where monks were buried. This book traces the story of the Bodmer Papyri from beginning to end.
The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy
Author: Kostas E. ApostolakisPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111295281
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Ancient Greek comedy relied primarily on its text and words for the fulfilment of its humorous effects and aesthetic goals. In the wake of a rich tradition of previous scholarship, this volume explores a variety of linguistic materials and stylistic artifices exploited by the Greek comic poets, from vocabulary and figures of speech (metaphors, similes, rhyme) to types of joke, obscenity, and the mechanisms of parody. Most of the chapters focus on Aristophanes and Old Comedy, which offers the richest arsenal of such techniques, but the less ploughed fields of Middle and New Comedy are also explored. Emphasis is placed on practical criticism and textual readings, on the examination of particular artifices of speech and the analysis of individual passages. The main purpose is to highlight the use of language for the achievement of the aesthetic, artistic, and intellectual purposes of ancient comedy, in particular for the generation of humour and comic effect, the delineation of characters, the transmission of ideological messages, and the construction of poetic meaning. The volume will be useful to scholars of ancient drama, linguists, students of humour, and scholars of Classical literature in general.
Women and the Comic Plot in Menander
Author: Ariana TraillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139472623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Taking a fresh look at mistaken identity in the work of an author who helped to introduce the device to comedy, in this book Professor Traill shows how the outrageous mistakes many male characters in Menander make about women are grounded in their own emotional needs. The core of the argument derives from analysis of speeches by or about women, with particular attention to the language used to articulate problems of knowledge and perception, responsibility and judgement. Not only does Menander freely borrow language, situations, and themes from tragedy, but he also engages with some of tragedy's epistemological questions, particularly the question of how people interpret what they see and hear. Menander was instrumental in turning the tragic theme of human ignorance into a comic device and inventing a plot type with enormous impact on the western tradition. This book provides original insights into his achievements within their historical and intellectual context.