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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 [4] [5]) was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek King (reigned c. 165 /155 [6] –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 (Menandros) was a Hellenistic Greek dramatist. He was the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, and one of the favourite writers of antiquity, immensely popular in his own time and for many centuries afterwards.
Feb 2, 2008 · Menander, the principal fragments, with an English translation by Francis G. Allinson : Menander, of Athens : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Menander, of Athens; Allinson, Francis Greenleaf, 1856-1931. Publication date. 1921. Publisher. London W. Heinemann. Collection. robarts; toronto. Contributor.
May 24, 2022 · "In ancient times Menander (341-290 BC) was the most admired and the most quoted of the writers of Attic New Comedy. He wrote over a hundred plays but until this century was known to us only by short quotations in ancient authors.
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.
Menander II Dikaios ( Greek: Μένανδρος Β΄ ὁ Δίκαιος; epithet means "the Just") may have been an Indo-Greek King who ruled in the areas of Arachosia and Gandhara in the north of modern Pakistan. However, since he is entirely known through his coins, this may have just been a separate set of coins issued by Menander I with a different epithet.
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”).
Feb 24, 2017 · Menander (c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was praised by his contemporaries as a great comic playwright – some even said the greatest, beating even Aristophanes into second place.
