MENANDER

mĭnănˈdər, 342?–291? b.c., Greek poet, the most famous writer of New Comedy. He wrote ingenious plays using the love plot as his theme; his style is elegant and elaborate and his characters are highly developed. Although original texts of his plays only came to light beginning in 1906, many fragments of his plays survive; The Curmudgeon, discovered in Cairo in 1957, is Menander's only complete play now extant (tr. by Gilbert Highet, 1959). Seven of his plays were adapted by Plautus and Terence.

See studies by T. B. L. Webster (1960, 1974, 1975), A. W. Gomme and F. H. Sandbach (1973).

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books on: Menander  - 1671 results

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Menander and the Making of Comedy
Book by J. Michael Walton, Peter D. Arnott; Praeger, 1996
Subjects: Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism, Menander--of Athens--Criticism and interpretation
...Terence, it would seem, owed more to Menander than did Plautus. As it happens, we...that both Plautus and Terence did adapt Menander plays. Plautus The Two Bacchises, The...Cistellaria , and Stichus are based on Menander originals: Pseudolus, The Carthaginian...
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From Homer to Menander: Forces in Greek Poetic Fiction
Book by L. A. Post; University of California Press, 1951
Subjects: Greek drama--History and criticism, Greek fiction--History and criticism, Homer, Menander--of Athens
...numerum . . . exsibilatur, exploditur. In Menander we find no lyric meter, but the rhythm of...is frustrated. 8 For Plutarchs praise of Menander see his Comparison of Aristophanes and Menander , which may be found in Volume 10 of the...
3.
Exits and Entrances in Menander
Book by K. B. Frost; Oxford University, 1988
Subjects: Drama--Technique, Greek Drama (Comedy)--History And Criticism, Menander--Of Athens--Technique
...Symbols Arnott 1979 Arnott, W. G., Menander Loeb, vol. i; London . Austin 1969...Darmstadt . Blundell 1980 Blundell., Menander and the Monologue Gottingen . CGF Austin...London . Gomme 1937 Gomme, A. W., "Menander", in Essays in Greek History and Literature...
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The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii - Vol. 1
Book by Roger Ling; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct City), House Of Menander (Pompeii), Pompeii (Extinct City)--Buildings, Structures, Etc
...to have projected rainwater into a garden, in this case the Menander kitchen garden R ; but its roof was rather higher than those...level to the north of this wall reflects the terracing of the Menander peristyle complex, and here too, as in room 18, led to the...
5.
Four Plays of Menander: The Hero, Epitrepontes, Periceiromene and Samia
Book by Edward Capps, Menander; Ginn and Company, 1910
Subjects: Drama
...edition. S. EITREM, " Zur Samia des Menander ," Berl. phil. Woch. 1908, cols...Suggestions on Lefebvres Comedies of Menander," Am. Jour. Phil. XXIX 1908 , pp...1910 , pp. 10 ff. TH. GOMPERZ, "Zu Menander," Hermes XI 1876 , pp. 507 ff. On...
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journal articles on: Menander  - 56 results

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The Question of Age in the Construction of Hellenistic Masculinities in Menander
Journal article by Henrik Berg; Thymos, Vol. 2, 2008
Subjects: Behavior, Construction, Ethnicity, Gender, Human relations, Masculinity, Scholars, Society
...Construction of Hellenistic Masculinities in Menander by Henrik Berg The purpose of the present...a brief introduction to the period, Menander and his work, I will focus on the texts...literary developments is the comedy of Menander (Menandros), who lived during the...
2.
Comic Metrical Signatures in Menander's Dyskolos
Journal article by Dougal Blyth; Antichthon, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Composition, Linguistics, Menander (342-292 BC), Poetry, Poets
...awareness of these very conventions. Menander is often regarded as a rather prosaic...approach first takes for granted that Menander is entitled to all the laxity of the...tragic trimeter.2 There is no doubt that Menander does create some distinctive effects...
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Marriage, Sexual Pleasure, and Learned Brides in the Wedding Orations of Fifteenth Century Italy *
Journal article by Anthony F. D'Elia; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Kings and rulers--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Kings--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Marriage customs and rites--15th century AD, Marriage customs--15th century AD, Marriage--History
...by the third-century Atticist writer, Menander Rhetor, was also essential for the revival...67. (50.) For seven manuscripts of Menander dating from the early fifteenth century, see Menander, xl-xlvii. Some of Menander was translated...
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Menander's Dyskolos at Sydney, 1959-2009*
Journal article by Christopher Flynn, John Sheldon; Antichthon, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Colleges & universities, Theater, Translations
...of the recently discovered Dyskolos of Menander was an opportunity not to be missed for...of whom had a considerable interest in Menander. We members of the Classical Society...accepts this.10 In The Dyskolos of Menander (1965),11 Handley omits the Mother...
5.
The No-Self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity
Journal article by James Giles; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 44, 1993
Subjects: Philosophy, Philosophy, Asian
of the word." Menander is quite astonished by this reply and...replies merely "No, your Majesty." Menander then exclaims triumphantly "Then for...vehicle?""In a chariot," says Menander. Nagasena then asks what the chariot...
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ARTS and LETTERS
Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 25, Autumn 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, The Warden of English: The Life of H.W. Fowler (Book)--Reviews
...the tragedian with a comic gene), Menander, Plautus, Terence, Machiavelli (between...well as six-year-old kids. Consider Menander, about whose plays, from the Greek...centuries, both Greeks and Romans thought Menander peerless. "O Menander and life...
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Plutarch & the Issue of Character
Magazine article by Roger Kimball; New Criterion, Vol. 19, December 2000
Subjects: Literature and history--Analysis, Plutarch--Philosophy, Politics and literature--History
...fragmentary "Comparison of Aristophanes and Menander" he clearly awards the palm to the decorous New Comedy of Menander. "The witticisms of Aristophanes...and love not joyful but licentious. Menander, by contrast, is said to bring us...
3.
Henry VIII and the Invention of the Royal Court
Magazine article by Greg Walker; History Today, Vol. 47, February 1997
Subjects: Courts and courtiers--History, Henry VIII, King of England--Evaluation, United Kingdom--History, 1485-1603 (Tudors)
...successor King Sweno, and the Gesta Danorum, and can ultimately be followed, via Cicero, to its roots in Homer, Socrates and Menander. Other supposedly novel features of the Henrician period have a similarly long history. The role of the court as a hot...
4.
Splitting Images: Communication in Classical Athens
Magazine article by Edith Hall; History Today, Vol. 44, July 1994
Subjects: Athens, Greece--History, Communication in politics--History, Democracy--History, Oratory--History
...simultaneously with the democracy at the end of the fourth century BC, to be replaced by the insipid and romantic New Comedy of Menander, peopled by fictional middle-class families, and avoiding political issues. Old Comedy was central to democratic communication...
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Hitch-Kick to Highgate
Magazine article by Gerald Freedman; American Theatre, Vol. 12, May-June 1995
Subjects: English drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Musical theater--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Shakespeare, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Style, Literary--Analysis
...matches, ghosts, marauding bears - as well as stand-up comedy and Abbott and Costello routines that were already ancient when Menander used them in 300 B.C. I do not mean to trivialize Shakespeare, to minimize the complexity of text and characterization...
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Erich Segal Dies at 72
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 22, 2010
Subjects: Actors--Biography, Actresses--Biography
...Row, 1983); ldquo;Oxford Readings in Aristophanes rdquo; (Oxford University, 1996); and ldquo;Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence rdquo; (Oxford University, 2001), all of which he edited.None has appeared on The Times rsquo...
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Three-Day Planner
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 17, 2009
Subjects: Greek mythology
...music and lyrics by Tony Award-winning composer of "Urinetown" Mark Hollmann. "Wild Goat" is based on a Greek myth of Menander and involves a grouchy farmer, his beautiful daughter, an overbearing widow and her handsome young son. It is a humorous...
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ItAEs All Go for aeWild GoatAE
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 15, 2009
Subjects: Composers
...friendly musical comedy. "Wild Goat" takes its inspiration from "Dyskolos" ("Grouch") by ancient comic Greek playwright Menander. It concerns the beautiful daughter of a grouchy well owner and her forbidden romance with the handsome son of a wealthy widow...
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Three-Day Planner
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 13, 2009
Subjects: Concerts, Property tax, Property taxes, Ticket sales
...music and lyrics by Tony Award-winning composer of "Urinetown," Mark Hollmann. "Wild Goat" is based on a Greek myth of Menander and involves a grouchy farmer, his beautiful daughter, an overbearing widow and her handsome young son. It is a humorous...
5.
Three-Day Planner
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 15, 2009
Subjects: Musicians
...music and lyrics by Tony Award-winning composer of "Urinetown," Mark Hollmann. "Wild Goat" is based on a Greek myth of Menander and involves a grouchy farmer, his beautiful daughter, an overbearing widow and her handsome young son. It is a humorous...


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encyclopedia articles on: Menander  - 8 results

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Menander
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MENANDER minan d r, 342? 291? b.c., Greek poet, the most famous writer of New Comedy. He wrote ingenious plays using the love plot...
2.
Terence
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...are adapted (with considerable liberty) from Greek plays by Menander and others. The writing is polished and urbane, the humor...Duckworth, The Complete Roman Drama (1942); W. G. Arnott, Menander, Plautus, and Terence (1965...
3.
Drama, Western
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Most extant examples of New Comedy are from the works of Menander ; these comedies are realistic and elegantly written, often...incorporated native Roman elements into the plots and themes of Menander, producing plays characterized by farce, intrigue, romance...
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Philemon , Ancient Greek Poet
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...poet file m n, c.360 c.265 b.c., Greek poet of the New Comedy. He was in ancient times considered second only to Menander . Fragments of his plays, originally numbering 97, survive. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Pali Canon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...extracanonical works, the Milindapanha the questions of Milinda, which describes the dialogue between the Indo-Bactrian king Menander (Milinda) and the Buddhist sage Nagasena, is outstanding. After the decline of Buddhism in India, Pali literature was...
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