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 | | Menander dates: 342-289 BCE genre: drama style: New Comedy diff : 7 works: The Grouch, She Who Was Shorn, The Samian fun fact: Menander was for the most part lost until this century, when numerous papyrus fragments of Menander came to light. |
 | | Plato dates: 429-347 BCE genre: philosophy style: idiosyncratic Attic prose diff : 3 works: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic fun fact: Early dialogues often show Socrates and an interlocutor wrestling with a question which neither answers, but Socrates' achievement is getting the interlocutor to admit that he does not know the answer. |
 | | Thucydides dates: 460-400 BCE genre: prose history style: some poeticisms, elliptical, likes antithesis diff : 10 (hardest prose author) works: Peloponnesian War fun fact: His account of Pericles' funeral oration, a wonderful piece of pro-Athenian propaganda, is followed by a harrowing account of the plague that struck Athens shortly afterward. |
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