Dyskolos by Menander

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Dyskolos by Menander

This well established scholarly edition was first published in 1965, seven years after publication of the papyrus containing the text. It includes introductory essays on scenery, staging, setting, actors and their roles, costumes and masks. The Greek text is accompanied by an apparatus and a full commentary.

Menander (341-290bc) was teh most distinguished author of Greek New Comedy. An Athenian of good family, he wrote over a hundred plays although only one survives intact today. Norma Miller was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge and spent her life as a teacher of Greek and Latin languages and literature at the Royal Holloway College. SHe is now Reader Emeritus of the University of London.
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ISBN 13 9781853991875
ISBN 10 1853991872
Title Dyskolos
Author Menander
Series Bcp Greek Texts
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 1998-01-01
Number of pages 336
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