Menander: The Shield and The Arbitration

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Menander: The Shield and The ArbitrationAris & Phillips Classical Texts 'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'? Thus was the judgement of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. Yet for centuries thereafter the plays were thought to be irretrievably lost, failing to become part of the canon of writers that generations of copyists deemed worthy of

Her name is Amara

Phoenician Women/Orestes/The Bacchae/Iphigenia at Aulis/Rhesus

university students and sixth-formers with an intelligent interest in ancient Greece

It provides valuable insights into the fundamental place of slavery in the economies and social life of classical Greece

This is an edition for classical scholars

metre and content

Aristophanes launched a violent attack on Cleon

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Απέναντι από την ξύλινη σκάλα

brought him into immediate political danger but at the same time established him as a fearless forensic orator

Throughout the last two millennia

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