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1. www.ucl.ac.uk › classics › classical-playMenander's Dyskolos Study Guide | Department of Greek ... - UCL

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   Menander's Dyskolos Study Guide. 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 ...

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   Menander. The comedies of the Athenian playwright Menander are completely different from those of Aristophanes.Classicists distinguish the Old and New Comedy. In the plays of Menander, the story is more or less credible (if one is willing to accept doppelgänger and frequent cases of mistaken identity and misunderstanding) and the characters are realistic.

3. dcc.dickinson.edu › menander-epitrepontes › introAuthor, Transmission, and Text | Dickinson College Commentaries

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   Author, Transmission, and Text. As much as any playwright in the history of staged drama, Menander represented a revolution in theater. Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE, Menander’s career spanned roughly thirty years and apparently more than a hundred plays. While he was neither the first nor the only playwright to script ...

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   Dyskolos. A country road in Phyle outside Athens in front of a temple of Pan. Dyskolos ( Greek: Δύσκολος, pronounced [dýskolos], translated as The Grouch, The Misanthrope, The Curmudgeon, The Bad-tempered Man or Old Cantankerous) is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander, the only one of his plays, and of the whole New Comedy, that has ...

5. www.penn.museum › sites › expeditionExpedition Magazine | Relevant Information About Menander - Penn

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   Menander in his plays is indulgent to all well-meaning characters, regardless of poverty, status, or sex. He idealizes the love of good women. It is natural to contrast him with the philosophic moralist and political conservative who limited extravagance by sumptuary laws. In Menander’s play, The Epitrepontes or Arbitration, the chief ...

6. dcc.dickinson.edu › menander-epitrepontes › introTHE PLOT of EPITREPONTES | Dickinson College Commentaries

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   Menander's Epitrepontes ("Arbitration") dramatizes the conflict and resolution between two neighboring households in Athens. The Greek title refers to men engaging in arbitration to resolve one part of the conflict, alluding specifically to the extended scene in Act 2 of the play, where characters pursue a comic version of legal arbitration to determine who rightfully owns property found ...

7. ancient-literature.com › greece_menander_dyskolosDyskolos - Menander - Ancient Greece - Classical Literature

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   Introduction. “Dyskolos” , usually translated as “The Grouch” but also “The Misanthrope” or “The Curmudgeon” or “The Bad-Tempered Man” , is a comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Menander. It was first presented at the Lenaia dramatic festival in about 316 BCE, where it won first prize.