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1	Plays and Fragments more books like this by Menander, Norma Miller (Designer) Menander was the founding father of European comedy. From Ralph Roister Doister to What the Butler Saw, from Henry Fielding to P. G. Wodehouse, the stock motifs and characters can be traced back to him. The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays but until the twentieth century he was known to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.39! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Dyskolos more books like this by Menander, E W Handley (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.54! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Menander, I, Aspis. Georgos. Dis Exapaton. Dyskolos. Encheiridion. Epitrepontes more books like this by Menander, W Geoffrey Arnott (Translator) Menander, the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays. By the Middle Ages they had all been lost. Happily papyrus finds in Egypt during the past century have recovered one complete play, substantial portions of six others, and smaller but still interesting fragments. Menander was highly regarded in antiquity and his plots, set in ... see all copies from $12.31! new only from $25.24! \| SVS
4	Menander: The Grouch, Desperately Seeking Justice, Closely Cropped Locks, the Girl from Samos, the Shield more books like this by Menander, David R Slavitt (Editor), Palmer Bovie (Editor) The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Arist see all copies from $2.01! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Conduct of Life: The Basic Thoughts of Confucius 1941 more books like this by Miles Menander Dawson see all copies from $7.90! new only from $24.17! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Menander the Plays and Fragments more books like this by Menander, Maurice Balme (Translator), Peter Brown (Introduction by) Menander was the founding father of European comedy. From Ralph Roister Doister to What the Butler Saw, from Henry Fielding to P. G. Wodehouse, the stock motifs and characters can be traced back to him. The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays but until the twentieth century he was known to ... see all copies from $2.32! new only from $3.15! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Menander, III, Samia. Sikyonioi. Synaristosai. Phasma. Unidentified Fragments more books like this by Menander (Translator), W Geoffrey Arnott (Translator) This volume completes the Loeb Classical Library's new edition of the leading writer of New Comedy. W. G. Arnott, an internationally recognized Menander expert, provides a Greek text based on careful study of recently discovered papyri, a facing translation that is lucid and fits today's tastes, and full explanatory notes. So influential in ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $25.24!
8	New Comedy more books like this by Aristophanes, Menander An essential book for students of Greek drama and literature: Aristophanes is widely regarded as one of Ancient Greece's foremost satirists - offering students of the period a unique insight into the world of Athens and its theatre Written in the century following the defeat of Athens by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian War, these four plays ... see all copies from $2.75! new only from $11.94!
9	Ethical Religion of Zoroaster more books like this by Miles M. Dawson 1931. An account of what Zoroaster taught, as perhaps the very oldest and surely the most accurate code of ethics for man, accompanied by the essentials of his religion. Contents: The Mission of Zoroaster; God; The Holy Spirits; Worship of the Sun, Fire, Ata, Mithra and Others; Ahriman and the Evil Spirits; Creation of the World and Primitive Ages ... see all copies from $17.41! new only from $23.32! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Reliquiae selectae more books like this by Menander, F H Sandbach (Editor) Menander was the greatest writer of Attic New Comedy. He wrote prolifically in the late fourth century BC, and nearly one hundred titles of his plays are known. Due to the plays' exclusion from the Greek school curriculum in the fifth century AD and subsequent centuries mainly because they were not written in the classical Attic dialect, but koine ... see all copies from $17.50! new only from $55.25!
11	The Ethics of Confucius more books like this by Miles Menander Dawson (Editor) This treatise covers the works of Confucius and his chief followers, with a sketch of his life. When Confucius died, it is recorded that his last words were regrets that none among the rulers then living possessed the sagacity requisite to a proper appreciation of his ethical philosophy and teachings. He died unhonored - in his seventy-third year ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $39.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Ethics of Socrates: A Compilation of the Teachings of the Father of Greek and Roman Philosophy, as Reported by His Disciples, Plato and Xe more books like this by Miles Menander Dawson see all copies from $35.00! new only from $55.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Menander, II, Heros. Theophoroumene. Karchedonios. Kitharistes. Kolax. Koneiazomenai. Leukadia. Misoumenos. Perikeiromene. Perinthia more books like this by W Geoffrey Arnott (Editor), Menander New finds, many of them in Egypt at Oxyrhynchus, have expanded the extant work of Menander since Allinson's one-volume Loeb edition was published in 1921. This Loeb Menander is three times the size of the Allinson volume. W.G. Arnott brings us all of the work of the Hellenistic comic playwright that is now available. A Greek text based on careful ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $24.00! \| SVS
14 view cover	Ethics of Confucius more books like this by Confucius, Miles Menander Dawson (Editor) "Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men." - Confucius. The Ethics of Confucius presents everyone with the opportunity to understand the true nature of the Confucian concept of good conduct to encourage independent, clear thinking about the purposes of life and what may be done with it. This volume of ethical teachings, ... see all copies from $24.17! new only from $24.17! \| SVS
15	The complete Greek drama; all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations more books like this by Whitney Jennings Oates (Editor), Eugene O'Neill, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, of Athens Menander see all copies from $5.00! first editions
16	The Girl from Samos, Or, the In-Laws more books like this by Menander see all copies from $2.92!
17	Samia more books like this by of Athens Menander With the discovery in Egypt of papyrus books we now know much more about Greek 'New Comedy' and the plays of its greatest exponent, Menander, but his second best preserved play, Samia, is not yet generally known. In this new edition the text takes account of all recent scholarly work, with the facing translation as an aid to interpretation. The ... see all copies from $27.41! new only from $67.08!
18	The characters/ [by] Theophrastus; [and], Plays and fragments/ [by] Menander more books like this by Theophrastus, Menander, Philip.Philip Vellacott see all copies from $11.83! first editions
19	Menander: The Bad Tempered Man more books like this by Menander, Stanley Ireland (Editor) Though in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to Homer, his plays were for centuries thought to be irretrievably lost. Only in this century have instances begun to re-emerge from the sands of Egypt, and it was not until 1958 that a complete play, Dyskolos or The Bad-Tempered Man, came to light. With ... see all copies from $37.50! new only from $41.25!
20 view cover	Menander: Dyskolos more books like this by E W Handley (Editor), Menander see all copies from $24.90! new only from $32.33!
21	Four Plays of Menander: the Hero, Epitrepontes, Periceiromene, Samia (College Classical Series Capps) by Menander Of Athens Edward Capps see all copies from $12.77!
22 view cover	Rhetor more books like this by Menander, Oxford University Press (Editor), Donald A Russell (Editor) see all copies from $130.21! new only from $130.21! \| SVS
23 view cover	Death According to the Religion of Zoroaster by Miles Menander Dawson see all copies from $13.15! new only from $13.15! \| SVS
24	Brand : a dramatic poem by Henrik Ibsen see all copies from $3.99! first editions
25	The Plays of Menander more books like this by Menander, Professor Lionel Casson (Editor) see all copies from $3.28! first editions

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