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Menander ( / məˈnændər /; Greek: Μένανδρος Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. [1] He wrote 108 comedies [2] and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. [3] His record at the City Dionysia is unknown.
' Menander the Saviour '; Pali: Milinda; sometimes called Menander the Great) was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek King (reigned c. 165 /155 –130 BC) who administered a large territory in the Northwestern regions of the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia.
Menander was an Athenian dramatist whom ancient critics considered the supreme poet of Greek New Comedy—i.e., the last flowering of Athenian stage comedy. During his life, his success was limited; although he wrote more than 100 plays, he won only eight victories at Athenian dramatic festivals.
Menander 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”).
Jan 11, 2022 · Menander was the author of more than a hundred comedies during a career spanning around 30 years, producing the first, “The Self Tormentor” (now lost), at the age of about 20. He took the prize at the Lenaia dramatic festival eight times, rivalled only by his contemporary Philemon.
May 29, 2018 · Overview. Menander has been called the greatest representative of Greek New Comedy, the era of drama that followed the Old Comedy (c. 435–405 bce) and the Middle Comedy (c. 400–323 bce) in ancient Greece.
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