[blam]

Ping.

[stylin19a]

It seems most of the verses start out:

"There once was two greeks from Thebes..."

[clee1]

Wonder what else the Vatican has stashed away? Elvis? JFK's real assasin? A UFO or two dozen?

[aristeides]

I suppose we should be grateful for anything that turns up, but I confess I am disappointed that the ancient literature that has been being rediscovered recently is largely Menander, who wrote sort of the ancient equivalent of situation comedies. How much more exciting it would be to get new Aeschylus, say, or Sappho, or Aristotle (whose dialogues were still known to Cicero, and were said to be written in a better style than Plato's.)

[DefCon]

Sometimes I think the Vatican just needs to haul
all those boxes of stuff in their basement
out to the driveway and have a big garage sale.

[Physicist]

While half of the 400 verses, copied on to a parchment in the ninth century, appear to be come from Menander's only salvaged play "The Grouch", or "Dyskolos", researchers believe 200 verses could be completely new finds.

I recently read the Penn translation of Dyskolos (although I think a better translation of the title would be "The Old Fart"). I really enjoyed it, along with the rest of Menander's plays. I hope this new manuscript fills in some of the gaps.

[diotima]

Ping!

I think there is more where this came from......

[bert]

In the AP account, one of the verses was the plot line for a Simpsons episode

[BobS]

Menander, a prolific writer of Greek comedies who was born in 342 BC, has been called the father of the modern sitcom.

Does he beat Sanford and Son?

[I'm ALL Right!]

bump

[Johnny_Cipher]

Would like to go back in time and make hard copies of everything in the Library at Alexandria BUMP.