Saturday, November 14, 2020
The Survival of Menander
Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), p. 51, discussing papyrus fragments:
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All the Menander we have is from such sources, all the Herodas, half the Sappho, most of the Archilochos...A considerable portion of Menander survives not in papyrus fragments but in quotations by other ancient authors: see Poetae Comici Graeci, edd. R. Kassel and C. Austin, Vol. VI 2: Menander: Testimonia et Fragmenta apud Scriptores Servata (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1998), a volume of xxxi + 437 pages.
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