Menander's comedies from the 4th/3rd centuries BCE mark the start of a tradition whose themes and structures endure in light comedies and soap operas while operating at the highest linguistic and psychological levels. One complete play and a number of fragments are known from papyri, with eighteen preserved well enough to reveal their contents. This book is the first to present them, along with prose translations, an introduction, and commentary.

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Niklas Holzberg , Munich, Germany.