Within the corpus of fictitious epistles by Alciphron, Menander’ s comedy is two- fold noticeable. 1. Th e playwriter appears himself as character, both sender and receiver of letters (4.18–19): an instance of metaliterary metalepsis, that confirms his wide reception in II-III cent. 2. Alciphron’ s letters take from Menander not only masks for their charac- ters, above all parasites and hetairae, but also some parts or details of his plots, characters’ names, vocabulary, noteworthy rhetorical-stylistic features (“simple thoughts”, proverbs, epiphonemata); all these elements of Menandrian origin are freely interspersed, combined with elements from other literary genres, such as bucolic poetry or novel,
La commedia di Menandro nelle “Lettere” di Alcifrone,
Vox;
2022-01-01
Abstract
Within the corpus of fictitious epistles by Alciphron, Menander’ s comedy is two- fold noticeable. 1. Th e playwriter appears himself as character, both sender and receiver of letters (4.18–19): an instance of metaliterary metalepsis, that confirms his wide reception in II-III cent. 2. Alciphron’ s letters take from Menander not only masks for their charac- ters, above all parasites and hetairae, but also some parts or details of his plots, characters’ names, vocabulary, noteworthy rhetorical-stylistic features (“simple thoughts”, proverbs, epiphonemata); all these elements of Menandrian origin are freely interspersed, combined with elements from other literary genres, such as bucolic poetry or novel,I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
