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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. He was one of the most popular writers ...
Menander (born c. 342—died c. 292 bce) was an Athenian dramatist whom ancient critics considered the supreme poet of Greek New Comedy —i.e., the last flowering of Athenian stage comedy. During his life, his success was limited; although he wrote more than 100 plays, he won only eight victories at Athenian dramatic festivals.
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Menander (Menandros) was a Hellenistic Greek dramatist. He was the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, and one of the favourite writers of antiquity, immensely popular in his own time and for many centuries afterwards. Unfortunately, very little of his work has survived the ravages of time.
May 29, 2018 · Menander (342–292 bc) Greek playwright. Menander wrote more than 100 comedies, of which only one, The Curmudgeon, survives in full. As the outstanding exponent of the New Comedy of Hellenistic times, he is regarded as the founder of the domestic comedy of manners.
Menander’s plays are mainly known through the works of the Roman dramatists Plautus and Terence, who translated and adapted them, along with other stock plots and characters of Greek New Comedy, for the Roman stage. Revived during the Renaissance, New Comedy influenced European drama down to the 18th century.
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Menander. Menander of Athens was the foremost representative of Greek New Comedy; he was born in Athens around 342 b.c. and died, allegedly by drowning in the harbour of the Piraeus, around 292 b.c. During his lifetime he wrote around 96 plays, competing with his two main rivals Diphilus and Philemon. Menander, for a long time, was only known ...
Menander (c. 342-290 BC), the chief representative of ancient Greek New Comedy, wrote over one hundred plays. Only Dyskolos ('The Grouch') survives nearly intact. At least eight of his plays won first prize in the comedy competitions of the Lenaea and Dionysia festivals, including Grouch (winner at the Lenaea in 316 BC). Menander's comedies had ...
