Menander
Athenian comic playwright (c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Menander (/məˈnændər/; Greek: Μένανδρος Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy.[1] He wrote 108 comedies[2] and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times.[3] His record at the City Dionysia is unknown.
Menander | |
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Born | 342/41 BC Kephisia, Athens |
Died | c. 290 BC (aged 50 – 52) |
Education | Student of Theophrastus at the Lyceum |
Genre | New Comedy |
Notable works |
He was one of the most popular writers and most highly admired poets in antiquity, but his work was considered lost before the early Middle Ages. It now survives only in Latin-language adaptations by Terence and Plautus and, in the original Greek, in highly fragmentary form, most of which were discovered on papyrus in Egyptian tombs during the early to mid-20th-century. In the 1950s, to the great excitement of Classicists, it was announced that a single play by Menander, Dyskolos, had finally been rediscovered in the Bodmer Papyri intact enough to be performed.