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Menander's Dyskolos at Sydney, 1959-2009*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Christopher Flynn and
John Sheldon
Christopher Flynn
Affiliation:
Kirribilli, NSW, cwaf@flvnnonline.net
John Sheldon
Affiliation:
Macquarie University, jss@bigpond.net.au
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Extract

Between 1955 and 1967 the undergraduate Classical Society of the University of Sydney staged a Greek or Latin play in the original language every year, an enterprise strongly supported by the academic departments concerned. The publication of the recently discovered Dyskolos of Menander was an opportunity not to be missed for a veritable coup de théâtre by staging in Sydney the first modern-world performance of this play. It is the sole surviving complete example of the work of an author whose enormous popularity in antiquity was only matched by his highly fragmentary representation in the written tradition. The comedy was given two performances in the Wallace Theatre at Sydney University on 4th July 1959.

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Research Article
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Antichthon , Volume 44 , November 2010, pp. 111 - 127
Copyright
Copyright © Australasian Society for Classical Studies 2010

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Footnotes

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This article is in the main a rewriting of the joint presentation given by Christopher Flynn (CWAF) and John Sheldon (JSS), two members of the cast of the 1959 Dyskolos production, at the Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference held at Sancta Sophia College within the University of Sydney on 4th February 2009. We have aimed at retaining as much of the flavour and style of the presentations as is consistent with the serious purpose of a scholarly journal like Antichthon. We are grateful to the editors for their advice and encouragement with the project and to the two anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions which are for the most part incorporated in what is published here.