Menander


 * Menander**

([|Greek] : Μένανδρος, //Menandros//; ca. 342–291 BC), Greek [|dramatist], the best-known representative of Athenian [|New Comedy] , was the son of well-to-do parents; his father [|Diopeithes] is identified by some with the Athens general and governor of the [|Thracian Chersonese] known from the speech of [|Demosthenes] //De Chersoneso//. He presumably derived his taste for comic drama from his uncle [|Alexis] [|[1]]. Menander was the author of more than a hundred comedies, and took the prize at the [|Lenaia] festival eight times. [|[6]] His record at the [|City Dionysia] is unknown but may well have been similarly spectacular.(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menander)


 * Plays: **
 * ** Aspis **
 * Dyskolos
 * Samia
 * Sikyonioi
 * Perikeiromene
 * Epitrepontes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menander
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