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Menander

Also known as Menander of Athens

Menander (; ; c. 342/341 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek playwright and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown.

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Menander was an ancient Greek playwright who lived around the 4th century BC and became the most famous writer of New Comedy, a style of drama performed in Athens. He wrote over 100 comedies and won major festival prizes multiple times, making him one of the most celebrated playwrights of his era.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 22

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Plays and Fragments
Komödien
Four Plays of Menander - the Hero, Epitrepontes, Periceiromene and Samia
Neue Menander
arbitrage

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Sweden
Active from: 1853-12-12
Active to: 1917-09-03

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Listeners: 2
Total plays: 8

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Quotes

“ζ[ῶ]ν οὗτος ἐπιεικῶς χρόνον πολὺν λελάληκεν ἡδέως ἐν τῷ βίῳ οὐδενί, προσηγόρευκε πρότερος δ᾿ οὐδένα πλὴν ἐξ ἀνάγκης, γειτνιῶν παριών τ᾿, ἐμὲ τὸν Πᾶνα· καὶ τοῦτ᾿ εὐθὺς αὐτῷ μεταμέλει, εὖ οἶδ᾿.”
“εὖ τοῦτ᾿ ἴσθ᾿, ὅτι πρὸς πάντα πράγματ᾿ ἐστὶ πρακτικώτερον εὐκαιρία.”
“τῶν δ᾿ ἀναγκαίων λέγειν πλείον᾿ οὐκ ἀνδρὸς νομίζω, πλὴν ἐκεῖνό γ᾿ ἴσθι, παῖ· ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ γὰρ βούλομ᾿ εἰπεῖν ὀλίγα σοι καὶ τοῦ τρόπου. εἰ τοιοῦτοι πάντες ἦσαν, οὔτε τὰ δικαστήρια ἦν ἄν, οὔθ᾿ αὑτοὺς ἀπῆγον εἰς τὰ δεσμωτήρια, οὔτε πόλεμος ἦν, ἔχων δ᾿ ἂν μέτρι᾿ ἕκαστος ἠγάπα. ἀλλ᾿ ἴσως ταῦτ᾿ ἔστ᾿ ἀρεστὰ μᾶλλον οὕτω· πράττετε. ἐκποδῶν ὑμῖν ⟨ὁ⟩ χαλεπὸς δύσκολός τ᾿ ἔσται γέρων.”
“τρυφερὸς ὢν δίκελλαν ἔλαβες, ἔσκαψας, πονε[ῖν ἠθέλησας. ἐν δὲ τούτῳ τῷ μέρει μάλιστ᾿ ἀνὴρ δείκνυτ᾿, ἐξισοῦν ἑαυτὸν ὅστις ὑπομένει τινὶ εὐπορῶν πένητι· καὶ γὰρ μεταβολὴν οὗτος τύχ[ης ἐγκρατῶς οἴσει. δέδωκας πεῖραν ἱκανὴν τοῦ τρόπ[ου· διαμένοις μόνον τοιοῦτος.”
“ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος.”
“ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεὸς ἐπεφάνης.”

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Key facts

Writer.name: Menander
Writer.image: Menander Chiaramonti Inv1453.jpg
Writer.alt: Bust of Menander
Writer.caption: Bust of Menander. Marble, Roman copy of the Imperial era after a Greek original (c. 343–291 BC).
Writer.birth_date: 342/41 BC
Writer.birth_place: Kephisia, Athens
Writer.death_date: c. 290 BC (aged 5052)
Writer.education: Student of Theophrastus at the Lyceum
Writer.genre: New Comedy

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Wikidata facts

Citizenship: Classical Athens
Image: Портрет Менандра А 850.jpg

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Commons category: Menander
Commons Creator page: Menander
name in native language: Μένανδρος
date of death: 0290-00-00
date of birth: 0342-00-00
significant place: Classical Athens

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Works in European collections

22 objects attributed to Menander, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Menandri Reliquiae in papyris et membranis servatae

Menandri et Philemonis reliquiae quotquot reperiri potuerunt graece et latine

Aristophanis Comoediæ Et Perditarum Fragmenta, Ex Nova Recensione Guilelmi Dindorf. Accedunt Menandri Et Philemonis Fragmenta Auctiora Et Emendatiora. Graece Et Latine Cum Indicibus

The poetic world, that is: Allerhand exquisite and yet not yet printed Teutsche poems.

Colloquia selecta et Timon. Cebetis Thebani tabula, Menandri sententiae morales

Menandri et Philemonis Reliquiae; Edidit Augustus Meineke ; Accedunt R. Bentleii in Menandrum et Philemonem emendationes integrae

<<Les>> Ambassades de l'Empereurs Justinien, Justin le jeune & Tibére (etc.)

Mythoi Aisopeioi, Fabulae Aesopiae

Philargyrii Cantabrigiensis Emendationes in Menandri et Philemonis Reliquias, Ex nupera Editione Joannis Clerici; Ubi quaedam Grotii et aliorum, plurima vero Phileleutheri Lipsiensis Errata castigantur, Cum Praefatione Joan. Clerici ...

Emendationes in Menandri et Philemonis Reliquias, Ex nupera Editiones Joannis Clerici; Ubi multa Grotii et aliorum, Plurima vero Clerici errata castigantur, Auctore Phileleuthero Lipsiensi

<<Menandri et Philemonis>> reliquiae, quotquot repriri potuerunt; graece et latine, cum notis Hugonis Grotii et Joannis Clerici

Ex comoediis eius que supersunt

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Life and work
Loss of his work
20th-century discoveries
Famous quotations
Comedies
More-complete plays
Only fragments available
Standard editions
See also
Notes
Further reading
External links

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.