The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
The translations in this volume are by Sheila D'Atri, Palmer Bovie, and Richard Elman.
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"A boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently 'accessible.' . . . For the classicist, these versions constitute an ambitious reinterpretation of traditional masterpieces."—Boston Book Review
"Directness, vivid imagery, and rhetorical music prevail in different cadences."—San Francisco Chronicle
"Don't look for the wild and woolly—these were put together by wordsmiths. . . . But they are a far cry from some of the stodgier translations."—Washington Post
"The 12-volume set will offer readers new verse translations of the complete surviving tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as well as the surviving comedies of Aristophanes and Menander. The complete line of Greek theater classics has not been offered to readers since 1938."—Publishers Weekly
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: Greek --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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a new approach to Menander,
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This review is from: Menander : The Grouch, Desperately Seeking Justice, Closely Cropped Locks, the Girl from Samos, the Shield (Penn Greek Drama Series) (Hardcover)
The editors wanted to make the comic drama come alive for a new audience....the goal was to use the complete Dyskolos (Grouch) and reconstruct the fragments of survivng plays by using as models copies by Terence and Plautus and fragments of other plays by Menander to give the sense of what New Comedy was and how it influenced the comedy of generations to come.
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The translation is too modern to be any good.,
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This review is from: Menander : The Grouch, Desperately Seeking Justice, Closely Cropped Locks, the Girl from Samos, the Shield (Penn Greek Drama Series) (Paperback)
This book, following the modern trend towards "relating to the people" loses all overview of Menander. Upon reading this book, one does not ask himself the age-old question, "Does Menander imitate life, or does life imitate Menander?"
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The Grouch or Dyskolos was produced in the winter of 316 B.C., when it won first prize at the Athenian festival of the Lenaea and Menander was in his mid-twenties. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The Grouch or Dyskolos was produced in the winter of 316 B.C., when it won first prize at the Athenian festival of the Lenaea and Menander was in his mid-twenties. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This book cites 5
books:
- New Comedy: Women in Power , Wealth , The Malcontent , The Woman from Samos (Ekklesiazousai/Wealth/the Malcontent/the Woman from Samos/4 Plays in 1 Volume) by Aristophanes on 5 pages
- Greek Drama by Aeschylus in Front Matter
- Greek Papyri: An Introduction by E. G. Turner in Front Matter
- The Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides in Front Matter
- Menander and the monologue (Hypomnemata ; Heft 59) by John Blundell in Front Matter
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