An edition of Menander's Samia with introduction and commentary

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The objective of this research is to complete an edition of Menander's comedy Samia (The Woman from Samos), which will contain a completely revised text of the play, an introduction explaining its principal themes and setting it in its literary, social and historical context, and a commentary which will, among other things, explain the meaning of the text, seek to determine how the play was performed, and establish, so far as possible, what was said and done in those sections of the play that have not been preserved in papyri (about half of the first act, and half of the second act, of this five-act play).