Epitrepontes (The Arbitration)

A question to carry into the reading

Whose knowledge becomes persuasive when status, ownership and reputation determine who is heard?

Read Plunkett’s preface, then the Act II arbitration scene with the Greek, notes and English performance script.

Further reading: MA-COL2-014 · MA-COL2-016

These are curatorial comparisons, not evidence supporting a scientific claim.

Reading and source

Only roughly half the ancient play survives. This English rendering is a performance script, not a literal translation; stage directions are modern interpretation. Preserve the context of slavery, sexual violence and infant exposure. Do not fill missing scenes with invented ancient text.

Read at the original source

Edition, source and reuse

Edition: Dickinson College Commentaries, 2022; ISBN 978-1-947822-19-1; Greek follows F. H. Sandbach’s revised 1990 Oxford text

Rights: Link to the modern scholarly edition. No blanket reuse clearance has been established across its modern translation, Greek editorial text, commentary and performance media; none is mirrored in the package.

Rights/source reference 1

Epitrepontes (The Arbitration) — Menander; modern performance translation and commentary by Marie Plunkett. Dickinson College Commentaries, 2022; ISBN 978-1-947822-19-1; Greek follows F. H. Sandbach’s revised 1990 Oxford text. Source: https://dcc.dickinson.edu/menander-epitrepontes/intro/preface. Bibliographic description and reading question by HCR; underlying work remains at its source.

Review scope: Editorial preface, transmission/introduction and the Greek, commentary and English arbitration-scene sample inspected; not a reconstruction of the whole lost play.