Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies
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Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies

Peace, Money, the God, and Samia

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies

Peace, Money, the God, and Samia

About this book

Three Comedies features the work of three dramatic geniuses of the glorious, no-holds-barred tradition of ancient Athenian comedy. Here Aristophanes, the eight-hundred-pound gorilla of Old and Middle Comedy meets Menander, elephant in the room of New Comedy, in a match made possible by Douglass Parker--if not Athenian exactly, or even ancient, possibly the maddest chameleon ever to absorb the true colors of an ancient choral song, transpose a lost pun, or channel a venerable, giant, dung-eating cockroach for the benefit of those who couldn't be there the first time.

Timothy J. Moore offers concise and informative introductions and notes to Parker's brilliant translation of Aristophanes' fantastical Peace and Money, the God and Menander's lively, domestic Samia --and includes, as a bonus, Parker's James Constantine Lecture at the University of Virginia, "A Desolation Called Peace: Trials of an Aristophanic Translator."

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. General Introduction
  7. Further Reading
  8. Old Comedy: Aristophanes’ Peace
  9. PEACE
  10. Middle Comedy: Aristophanes’ Money, the God
  11. MONEY, THE GOD
  12. New Comedy: Menander’s Samia
  13. SAMIA
  14. Appendix A: Prose translations of Peace 775–818 and 1305–1317
  15. Appendix B: Douglass Parker, “A Desolation CalledPeace: Trials of an Aristophanic Translator”
  16. Back Cover