Global InformationMisoumenos information
| Misoumenos | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Written by | Menander |
| Characters | Thrasonides, Krateia |
Misoumenos (Greek: Μισούμενος, translated as "The Hated Man" or "The Man She Hated") is a comedy by Menander (342/41 – 292/91 BC). Once considered lost, fragments of more than 400 verses of the play have been found.[1] However, most of these are seriously damaged, making it difficult to reconstruct the plot of the play.[2] Separate lines from the prologue also survived by being quoted by later writers.[3]
The surviving sources do not provide information regarding the time when the play was written and staged. At the same time, one of the fragments mentions royal power in Cyprus, which was abolished in 310/309 BC, so the action of the play takes place no later than this moment. Modern scholars date the play to approximately 300 BC.
Misoumenos seems to have been very popular in late antiquity, judging from the numerous papyrus fragments that have been recovered.[4] A scene from act 5 of the play is depicted in a mosaic in the House of Menander[5][6]
- ^ The Misumenos of Menander - Eric G. Turner, New Fragments of the Misoumenos of Menander. (Bulletin Supplement No. 17.) Pp. 73; 9 plates. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1965. Paper, 25s. net.
- ^ Cfr. W. G. Arnott, Menander. II, The Loeb Classical Library, Harvard U.P., 1996, pp. 245-363.
- ^ Furley, William. “Textual Notes on Menander’s ‘Misoumenos’, Taking in the Most Recently Published Fragments.” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 196, 2015, pp. 44–48. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43909935. Accessed 29 Aug. 2023.
- ^ Furley, William D. (2021). Menander 'Misoumenos' or 'The Hated Man' Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Institute of Classical Studies.
- ^ Kathryn Gutzwiller, and Ömer Çelik. “New Menander Mosaics from Antioch.” American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 116, no. 4, 2012, pp. 573–623. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.116.4.0573. Accessed 29 Aug. 2023.
- ^ Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater. Author(s):. Eric Csapo,. First published:15 January 2010. Print ISBN 978-1-4051-3536-8