This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ... wards of a hundred comedies, Menander, by a fatality which seems to Menander' have reigned over the destinies of many of the literati (of whose sudden and extraordinary deaths a whimsical account forms part of Bland's lively preface to his Translations from the Greek Anthology) was doomed to end his days (01. 122) " ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ... wards of a hundred comedies, Menander, by a fatality which seems to Menander' have reigned over the destinies of many of the literati (of whose sudden and extraordinary deaths a whimsical account forms part of Bland's lively preface to his Translations from the Greek Anthology) was doomed to end his days (01. 122) " by cold submersion in the waters of the Piraeus."1 Of the adventures of his life we know nothing. He appears, however, to have been patronised and courted by Ptolemy, the son of Lagus: a fact, we believe, proved only on the authority of the epistles to which we have already referred. We have adverted to Cumberland's papers in the Observer, and to Schlegel's Lectures on the history of the Greek drama. Cumberland has, moreover, executed translations of several of the most interesting remains, with singular fidelity and spirit. A pleasing and scholar-like collection of the original fragments of the new comedians (as well as of the minor writers of the old school) has been published by Robert Walpole. G. Bernhardt8 has recently investigated this subject fully. We quote the following enumeration of the poets of the middle and new comedy from his history: --1. Middle Comedy.--The authors of the middle comedy were in Poets of number about forty. Their dramas exceeded more than twice the comedj number of those belonging to the old comedy. We merely name a few of the most eminent of these writers, the fragments of whose works have been chiefly preserved by Athenaeus. Antiphanes, 1 Comicus ut liquidns periit dum nabat in undis. " As the comedian perished in the waves while swimming." Ovid, Ibis. 593.! Gnmdriss der G, riechischen Litteratur, Halle, 1845, Th. ii. S. 1005. flourished about 01. 98. Above 260 comedies were ascribed to him. Eu...
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