Le commedie. Volume primo. Edizione critica e traduzione a cura di D. Del Corno. - MENANDRO, (MENANDER),

KORTE INHOUD

Contents: Herois. Epitrepontum (cum papyri Didotianaemulieris oratione). Periciromenes. Fabuale quae dicitur incerta. Georgi. Theophorumenes. Citharistae. Colacis. Coneazomenarum. Misumeni. Perinthiae. Phasmatis. 'Half of Menander - Menander on papyrus, that is - is re-edited here in the first part of a projected two-volume edition (...). This volume contains (1) an extensive introduction about Menander, his work and his 'Nachleben', (2) a text of most of the papyri fragments known before 1958 (...), together with a brief apparatus, introductory comments, and selected notes, and (3) an Italian translation printed face to face with the Greek text. Del Corno's introductory essay is a model of its kind, a delight to one sated by the superficiality or distortion of some recent work on Menander. The topics discussed, ranging from Athenian society at the end of the fourth century B.C. to the ancient criteria of dramatic criticism, are dealt with clearly, judiciously, and sensitively. There is generally a refreshing...
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