Menander was the greatest writer of Attic New Comedy in the late fourth century B.C., yet it was not until the twentieth century and the discoveries of papyri in Egypt that even a sizable fragment of his work became available for study. Today, one complete play, the Dyskolos (The Bad Tempered Man), and considerable fragments from fourteen other plays survive. This revised edition of Sandbach's Oxford Classical Text (first published in 1972) contains all the extant fragments of Menander's work, including all fragments ...
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Menander was the greatest writer of Attic New Comedy in the late fourth century B.C., yet it was not until the twentieth century and the discoveries of papyri in Egypt that even a sizable fragment of his work became available for study. Today, one complete play, the Dyskolos (The Bad Tempered Man), and considerable fragments from fourteen other plays survive. This revised edition of Sandbach's Oxford Classical Text (first published in 1972) contains all the extant fragments of Menander's work, including all fragments recovered from quotation, and has been brought completely up to date with the inclusion of an appendix detailing the latest discoveries.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 7x0x5; Dark blue hardback with gilt lettered spine, complete with original dustjacket, just lightly rubbed and edge-worn. In very good condition: firm and square with strong joints, no bumps. Contents are crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Size: 190mm x 135mm. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.
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Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 0198145713. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Minor shelfwear to book. DJ spine slightly browned with one small tear. DJ is price-clipped.; Greek Text and Latin apparatus and introduction.; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis); 340 pages.
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Near Fine in Good jacket. Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and unmarked in any way. Book is from reference section of the library and shows very little wear. Text is in Greek. 340 pages.
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Very Good. 1972. Cloth, dj. Prev. owner's signature; also a prev. owner's bookplate. Some weasr to dj. 1972 printing. (Subject: Ancient, Greek Literature. )
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0198145713. Primary text is in Greek, preface and notes are in Latin. Part of the Oxford Classical Texts series. Edited by F. H. Sandbach. First edition. Very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket.; 340 pages.
