Menander

General Resources

English Translations

Complete Works (Intended)

  • M. Balme, Menander: The Plays and Fragments (Oxford, 2001)
  • Penn: D. R. Slavitt and P. Bovie (eds.), Menander, Penn Greek Drama Series [The Grouch / Dyskolos (S. D’Atri); Desperately Seeking Justice / Epitrepontes (S. D’Atri and P. Bovie); Closely Cropped Locks / Perikeiromene (S. D’Atri and P. Bovie); The Girl from Samos / Samia (R. Elman), The Shield / Aspis (S. D’Atri and P. Bovie)] (Philadelphia, 1998)
  • N. Miller, Menander: Plays and Fragments (Penguin, 1987)
  • LCL (current): W. G. Arnott, 3 vols., LCL (1979-2000)
  • L. Casson, The Plays of Menander (New York, 1971)
  • P. Vellacott, Menander: Plays and Fragments / Theophrastus: The Characters (Penguin, 1967, 1973)
  • LCL (old): F. G. Allinson, LCL (1921); rev. (1930)
  • J. S. Pomeroy (“unus multorum”), The Lately Discovered Fragments of Menander (London, 1909)
  • In F. Fawkes, Original Poems and Translations: “The Fragments of Menander Translated into English Verse” (London, 1761)

Collections

  • J. M. Walton, Aristophanes and Menander: New Comedy [includes The Malcontent and The Woman from Samos] (London, 1994); rev. ed. (London, 1998)
  • L. A. Post, Three Plays [The Girl from Samos; The Arbitration; The Shearing of Glycera] (New York, 1929)

Newer Scholarship

  • A. M. Heap, Behind the Mask: Character and Society in Menander (London:  Bloomsbury, 2019) [Review by Furley in BMCR]

Reception