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Menander
Menander 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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culture · Athenian comic playwright (c. 342/341 – c. 290 BC) · comedy writer · poet · writer · also Menander, Menander of Athens
Born 340 BC · Died 292 BC · Q118992
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2003· 1 entry
A palimpsest manuscript, in Syriac writing of the 9th century, was found where the reused parchment comes from a very expensive 4th-century Greek manuscript of works by Menander
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1959· 1 entry
The Bodmer papyrus was published containing Dyskolos, more of the Samia, and half of the Aspis
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1907· 1 entry
With the discovery of the Cairo Codex, which contained large parts of the Samia, the Perikeiromene, and the Epitrepontes; a section of the Heros; and another fragment from an unidentified play
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1906· 1 entry
Which had clearly been thoroughly recycled
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