Author: MENANDER. Furley, William.
Title: Perikeiromene or The shorn head.
Description: London, Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, [2015]. X,209 pp. Col. ills. Orig. hardcover (pictorial boards). (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement 127).Edited with an introduction and commentary by William Furley. - The hardcover edition is sold out at the publisher. - - Perikeiromene is a comedy by Menander that is only partially preserved on papyrus. Of an estimated total of between 1030 and 1091 lines, about 450 lines (between 40 and 45%) survive. Most acts lack their beginning and end, except that the transition between act I and II is still extant. The play may have been first performed in 314/13 BC or not much later. Menander (c. 342/41 - c. 290 B.C.) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. He was one of the most popular writers in antiquity, but his work was lost during the Middle Ages and is now known in highly fragmentary form, much of which was discovered in the 20th century. Only one play, Dyskolos, has survived almost complete. [Source: Wikipedia].

Keywords: Classical Philology Theatre Klassieke filologie Theater