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The Importance of Overseas in Menander

  • William Furley
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Departing the Polis
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Abstract

This paper analyses travel in Menander’s extant fragments from the point of view of: i. physical travel, usually by sea, and overseas activity affecting the action of a play, ii. physical travel in and around the polis where the action is based (usually Athens). In either case, both the off-scene travel and action is important, as well as the absences created by the departures and travels. Travel is a way of effecting change, surprise, and development in the mythos, or fabula, of the play. A third aspect we can subsume under travel is the internal ‘journey’ of a central character, usually from confusion and error to an improved understanding of self and others. Menander’s stage itself depicts a section of an urban (rarely rural) street with two/three entranceways in the skênê and two exits, stage left to town or harbour, stage right to the country. Around these visible axes, referenced travel permits a network extending far overland and -sea.

Abstract

This paper analyses travel in Menander’s extant fragments from the point of view of: i. physical travel, usually by sea, and overseas activity affecting the action of a play, ii. physical travel in and around the polis where the action is based (usually Athens). In either case, both the off-scene travel and action is important, as well as the absences created by the departures and travels. Travel is a way of effecting change, surprise, and development in the mythos, or fabula, of the play. A third aspect we can subsume under travel is the internal ‘journey’ of a central character, usually from confusion and error to an improved understanding of self and others. Menander’s stage itself depicts a section of an urban (rarely rural) street with two/three entranceways in the skênê and two exits, stage left to town or harbour, stage right to the country. Around these visible axes, referenced travel permits a network extending far overland and -sea.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. List of Maps and Figures IX
  5. Introduction: On Departing the Polis 1
  6. Part I: Theatrical Journeys and Travellers
  7. Travel to Athens’ Dionysia: Ἑλλὰς Ἑλλάδος and the Centripetal Politics of the Athenian Dionysia 19
  8. Travel beyond Athens: Pilgrims and Sanctuaries in Greek Tragedy 43
  9. An Archetypical Traveler: Strangers in Distress and Suppliants in Greek Tragedy 89
  10. Mapping the Cosmos: The Cosmological Imagination of Travelling in Aeschylus’ Persians and the Oresteia 107
  11. Part II: Travel and the Tragic
  12. Sophocles’ Triptolemos and other Tragic Globetrotters 141
  13. Travelling Through Nemea in Euripides’ Hypsipylē 153
  14. Euripides’ Melanippē Plays and the Politics of Travel 167
  15. Part III: Comic Travels
  16. The Voyage of Eternal Return: Extraordinary Travel in Aristophanes and Old Comedy 185
  17. Perceptions of Travel in Greek Comedy: Exploring some Examples from Middle Comedy 209
  18. The Importance of Overseas in Menander 225
  19. Abbreviations
  20. Bibliography
  21. List of Contributors 265
  22. General Index
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112210109-011

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. List of Maps and Figures IX
  5. Introduction: On Departing the Polis 1
  6. Part I: Theatrical Journeys and Travellers
  7. Travel to Athens’ Dionysia: Ἑλλὰς Ἑλλάδος and the Centripetal Politics of the Athenian Dionysia 19
  8. Travel beyond Athens: Pilgrims and Sanctuaries in Greek Tragedy 43
  9. An Archetypical Traveler: Strangers in Distress and Suppliants in Greek Tragedy 89
  10. Mapping the Cosmos: The Cosmological Imagination of Travelling in Aeschylus’ Persians and the Oresteia 107
  11. Part II: Travel and the Tragic
  12. Sophocles’ Triptolemos and other Tragic Globetrotters 141
  13. Travelling Through Nemea in Euripides’ Hypsipylē 153
  14. Euripides’ Melanippē Plays and the Politics of Travel 167
  15. Part III: Comic Travels
  16. The Voyage of Eternal Return: Extraordinary Travel in Aristophanes and Old Comedy 185
  17. Perceptions of Travel in Greek Comedy: Exploring some Examples from Middle Comedy 209
  18. The Importance of Overseas in Menander 225
  19. Abbreviations
  20. Bibliography
  21. List of Contributors 265
  22. General Index
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