Epitrepontes
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Epitrepontes (, translated as The Arbitration or The Litigants) is an Ancient Greek comedy, written c. 300 BCE by Menander. Only fragments of the play have been found, primarily on papyrus, yet it is one of Menander's best-preserved plays.
Key facts
- Play.name
- Epitrepontes
- Play.image
- Relief with Menander and New Comedy Masks - Princeton Art Museum.jpg
- Play.writer
- Menander
- Play.characters
- Charisios, Pamphile
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Wikidata facts
- Author
- Menander
- Genre
- New Comedy
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- title
- Ἐπιτρέποντες
- language of work or name
- Ancient Greek
- form of creative work
- play
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Encyclopedic overview
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Epitrepontes (, translated as The Arbitration or The Litigants) is an Ancient Greek comedy, written c. 300 BCE by Menander. Only fragments of the play have been found, primarily on papyrus, yet it is one of Menander's best-preserved plays.
Fragments of roughly 750 lines, accounting for about half of the play, were found in 1907, alongside Perikeiromene and Samia in the Cairo Codex. Additional fragments of the play have been found since its initial discovery. In 2012, the Michigan Papyrus was published, giving better readings to Acts 3 and 4 of the play.
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