Table of Contents

Plays and FragmentsPreface
Introduction
Further Reading
Old Cantankerous
The Girl from Samos
The Arbitration
The Rape of the Locks
The Shield
The Sikyonian
The Man She Hated
The Double Deceiver and The Two Bacchises by Plautus
The Farmer
The Toady
The Harpist
The Hero
The Phantom
The Girl Possessed
The Girl from Perinthos
Title Unknown
Some Longer Fragments
Some Fragments Doubtfully Attributed to Menander
Notes

About the Author

Menander (341-290bc) was teh most distinguished author of Greek New Comedy. An Athenian of good family, he wrote over a hundred plays although only one survives intact today.


Norma Miller was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge and spent her life as a teacher of Greek and Latin languages and literature at the Royal Holloway College. SHe is now Reader Emeritus of the University of London.