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Mar 26, 2024 · Menander (flourished 160 bce?–135 bce?) was the greatest of the Indo-Greek kings and the one best known to Western and Indian classical authors. He is believed to have been a patron of the Buddhist religion and the subject of an important Buddhist work, the Milinda-panha (“The Questions of Milinda”).
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.
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. World Encyclopedia.
Menander of ATHENS （ *Me/nandros), of ATHENS, the most distinguished poet of the New Comedy, was the son of Diopeithes and Hegesistrate, and flourished in the time of the successors of Alexander.He was born in Ol. 109. 3, or B. C. 342-1, which was also the birth-year of Epicurus; only the birth of Menander was probably in the former half of the year, and therefore in B. C. 342, while that of ...
Feb 22, 2024 · Menander (Gr. Μένανδρος Menandros, 342–291 BC) was an ancient Greek poet, the principal representative of New Comedy and comedy of characters. He hailed from a family that provided him with a careful upbringing and education. He was a student of Theophrastus and a friend of Epicurus, with whom he likely served in the military.
Jun 6, 2002 · Brown covers Menander’s life, dating of the plays, the development of Greek stage comedy, theatrical and generic conventions of Menandrean comedy, and an assessment of Menander’s legacy for world theater.
Overview. Menander. (c. 342—292 bc) Greek dramatist. Quick Reference. (? 344/3–292/1 bc), the leading writer of New Comedy (see comedy (greek), new), although in his own time less successful (with only eight victories) than Philemon.
