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Author: MENANDER. Maurice Balme (Trans), Peter Brown (Intro).
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This new verse translation of the plays and fragments of Menander (341-290 BC), with explanatory notes and introduction, follows the text of Menander closely but attempts to fill some of the gaps by supplements based on the dramatic situation and surviving words in the damaged papyri, so that the reader has, as far as possible, a consecutive text.

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Title Menander: The Plays and Fragments
Author Menander; Balme; Maurice Balme (Translator)
Binding Hardback
Pages 336
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher OUP Oxford
Publication date 2001-08-09
Illustrated Yes
Features Illustrated
ISBN 9780198152705 / 0198152701
Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.94 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.39 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
Category Plays / Drama
Library of Congress subjects Greece, Comedies
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00050425
Dewey Decimal Code 882.01

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THE PLAYS AND FRAGMENTS.

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Oxford,, 2003. Reprint. Hardback. . Very slight rubbing, with the word 'damaged' stamped on the title page and half title page but no sign of this apart from a faint bump at foot of spine. Very good plus.. 8vo. pp xxxiv, 312. Original publisher's illustrated orange laminated boards. Issued without dust jacket. ISBN: 0198152701

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Oxford University Press, Oxford (...), 2001. XXXIV,312p. Cloth wrps. Nice copy. 'Peter Brown provides a sharp and wide-ranging, yet coherent introduction. Brown covers Menander's life, dating of the plays, the development of Greek stage comedy, theatrical and generic conventions of Menandrean comedy, and an assessment of Menander's legacy for world theater. He also nicely emphasizes the lively stage action of Menander's comedy in performance. (...). Balme's translation is the most meticulous yet to appear in English. He renders the Greek iambic trimeter into blank verse and the trochaic tetrameter into English trochaics. (...) Balme expends the most effort making his translation reflect the state of the tattered remains of the scripts of Menander's plays. He dutifully notes gaps, supplies hypotheses about their contents, and for shorter textual problems, he italicizes any translation of tentative reconstructions. (...) Overall, then, for Brown's introduction and Balme's exactness, this new volume… Read more

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The Plays and Fragments. Translated with Explanatory Notes by M. Balme. With an Introduction by Peter Brown.

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Oxford University Press, Oxford (...), 2001. XXXIV,312p. Cloth wrps. Nice copy. With editor's dedication on free endpaper.: 'Geoffrey with very many thanks for all your help and encouragement Maurice.' 'Peter Brown provides a sharp and wide-ranging, yet coherent introduction. Brown covers Menander's life, dating of the plays, the development of Greek stage comedy, theatrical and generic conventions of Menandrean comedy, and an assessment of Menander's legacy for world theater. He also nicely emphasizes the lively stage action of Menander's comedy in performance. (...). Balme's translation is the most meticulous yet to appear in English. He renders the Greek iambic trimeter into blank verse and the trochaic tetrameter into English trochaics. (...) Balme expends the most effort making his translation reflect the state of the tattered remains of the scripts of Menander's plays. He dutifully notes gaps, supplies hypotheses about their contents, and for shorter textual problems, he italicizes any… Read more

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