The poets of Greek New Comedy often arouse the expectations of the audience with the aim of cheating them. Menander often employs these means of comic effects. This paper aims to examine four problems: firstly, the individual traits of the type figures, secondly, the introduction of unfulfilled motifs, then the figure of Chrysis in Samia and finally the dramatic developments in Act V
Virgil was know to be indebted to Hellenistic schemata. It is in no way prohibited to think that the...
The paper examines the surviving references to the setting of the rapes in New Comedy. It argues tha...
The disputed question of the alleged political character of New Comedy finds its most suitable appro...
ENGLISHAs the only surviving representative of New Comedy, Menander offers an interesting case-study...
In a famous fragment of Antiphanes’ Poetry (fr. 189), a character compares the resources available t...
An analysis of the five best preserved comedies of Menander shows that aposiopesis is not an usual f...
If we say that the writers of New Comedy (Menander and his older contemporaries Philemon and Diphilo...
Although previous scholars have discussed the metatheatrical aspects of the surviving comedies of Gr...
Although previous scholars have discussed the metatheatrical aspects of the surviving comedies of Gr...
This paper focuses on the reception of Menander in the Imperial Period. For that, pictographic and l...
This Independent Study examines the work of the Greek comic playwright Menander, who lived from abou...
The main characteristics of the dramatic art of Aristophanes –based on his work Ornithes (Birds)- an...
Menander worked in a restrictive genre that limited his opportunities to create variation between pl...
Menander worked in a restrictive genre that limited his opportunities to create variation between pl...
peer reviewedThe concept of metatheatre is outstanding for the study of ancient theatre, both Greek ...
Virgil was know to be indebted to Hellenistic schemata. It is in no way prohibited to think that the...
The paper examines the surviving references to the setting of the rapes in New Comedy. It argues tha...
The disputed question of the alleged political character of New Comedy finds its most suitable appro...
ENGLISHAs the only surviving representative of New Comedy, Menander offers an interesting case-study...
In a famous fragment of Antiphanes’ Poetry (fr. 189), a character compares the resources available t...
An analysis of the five best preserved comedies of Menander shows that aposiopesis is not an usual f...
If we say that the writers of New Comedy (Menander and his older contemporaries Philemon and Diphilo...
Although previous scholars have discussed the metatheatrical aspects of the surviving comedies of Gr...
Although previous scholars have discussed the metatheatrical aspects of the surviving comedies of Gr...
This paper focuses on the reception of Menander in the Imperial Period. For that, pictographic and l...
This Independent Study examines the work of the Greek comic playwright Menander, who lived from abou...
The main characteristics of the dramatic art of Aristophanes –based on his work Ornithes (Birds)- an...
Menander worked in a restrictive genre that limited his opportunities to create variation between pl...
Menander worked in a restrictive genre that limited his opportunities to create variation between pl...
peer reviewedThe concept of metatheatre is outstanding for the study of ancient theatre, both Greek ...
Virgil was know to be indebted to Hellenistic schemata. It is in no way prohibited to think that the...
The paper examines the surviving references to the setting of the rapes in New Comedy. It argues tha...
The disputed question of the alleged political character of New Comedy finds its most suitable appro...