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Menander

Also known as Menander of Athens

griechischer Komödiendichter

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Menander was a male poet and writer from Classical Athens who wrote in Ancient Greek. His native name was Μένανδρος. He was a student of Alexis and Theophrastus and was educated at the peripatetic school. His work is associated with the New Comedy movement and the comedy genre.

His notable works include the plays Dyskolos, Aspis, Epitrepontes, and Misoumenos. He received the Lenaia award. Menander was born in Kephisia and died from drowning. His writings have been described by sources such as the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 22

Top works

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

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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

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Classical Athens
Place of birth: Kephisia
Occupation: poet
Educated at: peripatetic school
Languages spoken: Ancient Greek
Native language: Ancient Greek
Award: Lenaia
Notable work: Perikeiromene
Student of: Theophrastus
Genre: comedy
Movement: New Comedy
Image: Портрет Менандра А 850.jpg

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Commons category: Menander
topic's main category: Category:Menander
described by source: Pauly–Wissowa
Commons Creator page: Menander
writing language: Ancient Greek
cause of death: drowning
name in native language: Μένανδρος
date of death: 0290-00-00
date of birth: 0342-00-00
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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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Article · Deutsch

Menander (griechisch Μένανδρος Ménandros, latinisiert und deutsch Menander; * 342/341 v. Chr. in Kephisia; † 291/290 v. Chr.) war ein griechischer Komödiendichter und in Athen wirkender Meister der sogenannten „Neuen Komödie“.

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Menander