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məˈnæn dərmenan·der
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Menandernoun
comic dramatist of ancient Greece (342-292 BC)
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Menander
Menander (; Greek: Μένανδρος Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist 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. He was one of the most popular writers in antiquity, but his work was lost during the Middle Ages and is now known in highly fragmentary form, much of which was discovered in the 20th century. Only one play, Dyskolos, has survived almost complete.
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Menander was a Greek dramatist and the most well-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He was born in Athens, Greece, around 342-341 BC and died in the late 3rd century BC. Menander is best known for his comedic plays which satirized the everyday life and manners of his time, often with intricate plots and vivid characters. His style impacted the evolution of modern Western comedy and his works influence Roman playwrights like Plautus and Terence.
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Menander
Menander was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He was the author of more than a hundred comedies, and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown but may well have been similarly spectacular. One of the most popular writers of antiquity, his work was lost in the Middle Ages and is known in modernity in highly fragmentary form, much of which was discovered in the 20th century. Only one play, Dyskolos, has survived almost entirely.
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Menander
a Greek comic poet, born at Athens; was the pupil of Theophrastus and a friend of Epicurus; of his works, which were numerous, we have only some fragments, but we can judge of them from his imitator Terence (q. v.) (342-291 B.C.).
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