Rhetorical Studies in the Arbitration Scene of Menander's Epitrepontes
Author : James Wilfred Cohoon
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
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Author : James Wilfred Cohoon
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
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Author : Traianos Gagos
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472065905
Family squabbles and fights over real estate were no less complex in sixth-century Egypt than they are in the modern world. In this unusual volume Peter van Minnen and Traianos Gagos investigate just such a struggle, as described in a two-part papyrus some five feet long. Composed by the ancient equivalent of a notary public, the papyrus describes the outcome (after mediation) of a family dispute about valuable real estate. Traianos Gagos and Peter van Minnen offer an English translation and a clear Greek text of the two papyrus fragments, as well as an important discussion of the nature of such mediation, its role in contemporary society, a consideration of the town of Aphrodito and its social and political elite, as well as many other topics that spring from this kind of document. The use of methodologies from modern jurisprudence and anthropology together with an accessible style of writing mean that Settling a Dispute will be of interest to persons in many fields, including history, Classics, and Near Eastern studies. All Greek is translated, and an extensive commentary offers much helpful information on the text. Traianos Gagos is Associate Archivist of the University of Michigan's papyri collection. Peter van Minnen is Senior Research Associate in the papyri collection at Duke University.
Author : Menander (of Athens.)
Publisher : Aris & Phillips Classical Text
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0856688339
Though in antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to Homer, his plays were for centuries thought to be irretrievably lost. It was only in the 20th century that large sections of his work began to emerge, The Arbitration's major portion published in 1907, The Shield in 1969. With these and other finds we can now gauge in full the skill that Menander brought to his works. In preparing this edition the author has aimed to make accessible to readers some of the consummate sophistication in dramatic technique and use of language that once produced the question, `Menander and Life, which of you imitated the other?'
Author : Mervin Dilts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004330313
A revised Greek Text (the first in a century) and English translation (the first in any modern language) of the Art of Political Speech by a writer known as the Anonymous Seguerianus (ca. A.D. 200) and the Art of Rhetoric of Apsines of Gadara (ca. A.D. 230), with introduction, notes, and indices. These works provide evidence of how rhetoric was taught in Greek in the early centuries of the Roman Empire and show the continued development of an Aristotelian tradition before acceptance of the reorganization of the subject by Hermogenes. They complement each other in that the Anonymous was especially interested in debates about rhetorical theory, while Apsines' primary interest was in analysis of speeches of Demosthenes and other orators and in teaching declamation.
Author : American Philological Association
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Classical philology
ISBN :
Bibliographical record of works published by members of the Association, in v. 28- 1897-
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Classical education
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Author : Menander (of Athens.)
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Epitrrepontes, or 'The Arbitration', which Menander produced around 300 BC, tackles the modern-sounding subject of a broken marriage. Charisios has left his young wife Pamphile over a suspected infidelity and moved in with his neighbour to drown his sorrows in wine and women, specifically, a spirited harp-girl called Habrotonon. The irate father-in-law will not tolerate this waste of a good dowry and demands of his daughter that she divorce. Bravely she holds out against her father's tirades and remains loyal to her husband. A complex and masterly dramatic sequence ensures that by the end 'all's well that ends well' - and Menander has struck a blow for equality of the sexes, for understanding over arrogance and pride. A large portion of the Epitrepontes was recovered from oblivion in 1905. Since then new papyrus finds have continued to fill the gaps. This edition makes available to the reader all known papyri of the play, including the most recent. The commentary aims to explain the printed text, to place Menander's language in the context of Athenian dramatic art and rhetoric, and to appreciate his subtle insights into the psychology of his characters, from the huffy father-in-law Smikrines to the 'little people' of the comedy, the slaves, each with their private agenda.
Author : Classical Association (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Classical education
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Author : Andreas N. Michalopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1527509540
This volume presents essays written in honour of Stratis Kyriakidis, Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece. It offers a rich assortment of scholarship on classical literature, ranging from Homeric epic, and the tradition of ecphrasis it spawned in a number of genres, to 17th-century English translations of Virgil’s Aeneid. The collection is divided into two sections, the first on Greek literature, and the second on Latin literature. The sixteen chapters within offer fresh insights and thoughtful readings of a variety of works of classical literature, as well-known as the Iliad and the Aeneid and as exotic as the epigrams of Geminus.
Author : Sebastiana Nervegna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107004225
Reconstructs the ancient afterlife of Menander by focusing on three contexts of reception: public theatre, private entertainment and schools.