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	Menander
		Menander (342-291 BC), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New comedy, was born at Athens.
		Menander, however, believed himself to be the better dramatist, and, according to Aulus Gellius, used to ask Philemon: "Don’t you feel ashamed whenever you gain a victory over me?" According to Caecilius of Calacte (Porphyry in Eusebius, Praep.
		Till the end of the 19th century, all that was known of Menander were the fragments collected by A Meineke (1855) and T Kock, Comicorum atticorum fragmenta, iii.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Menander.html (869 words)

	Menander - Crystalinks
		Menander (342291 BC), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy, was born in Athens.
		Menander, however, believed himself to be the better dramatist, and, according to Aulus Gellius, used to ask Philemon: "Don't you feel ashamed whenever you gain a victory over me?" According to Caecilius of Calacte (Porphyry in Eusebius, Praeparatio evangelica) Menander was guilty of plagiarism, his The Superstitious Man being taken from The Augur of Antiphanes.
		Menander's chief strengths seem to be the facility of language, accurate portrayal of manners, and naturalness of the sentiments which he puts into the mouth of his dramatis personae.
	www.crystalinks.com /menander.html (744 words)

	Menander (Dramatist) - LoveToKnow 1911
		MENANDER (342-291 B.e.), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New comedy, was born at Athens.
		Menander, however, believed himself to be the better dramatist, and, according to Aulus Gellius, used to ask Philemon: " Don't you feel ashamed whenever you gain a victory over me? " According to Caecilius of Calacte (Porphyry in Eusebius, Praep.
		Menander's chief excellences seem to be facility of language, accurate portrayal of manners, and naturalness of the sentiments which he puts into the mouth of his dramatis personae.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Menander_(Dramatist) (970 words)

	Menander
		MENANDER, the most celebrated of the Greek comic poets, was born at Athens B.C. His father's name was Diopithes; and his master in philosophy was Theophrastus, according to the testimony of Pamphila.
		Julius Caesar, in calling the elegant Terence "dimidiatus Menander," and at the same time lamenting his deficiency in the vis comica, implies that the Greek dramatist possessed the latter quality, together with the excellences so much admired by the Roman.
		Menander composed 108 comedies, of which eight only gained the theatrical prize.
	www.theatredatabase.com /ancient/menander_001.html (124 words)

	Menander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Menander (342–291 BC) (Greek Μένανδρος), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy, was born in Athens.
		He is praised by Plutarch (Comparison of Menander and Aristophanes) and Quintilian (Institutio Oratoria), who accepted the tradition that he was the author of the speeches published under the name of the Attic orator Charisius.
		Until the end of the 19th century, all that was known of Menander were the fragments collected by Augustus Meineke (1855) and Theodor Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta (1888).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Menander (749 words)

	Menander Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The attitude of the ancients toward Menander is summed up in the famous remark of Aristophanes of Byzantium, the Alexandrian critic: "O Menander and life, which of you has imitated the other"" Modern critics are less unanimous in their praise of Menander.
		Menander reflects this world in his quiet moralizing, gentle skepticism, and keen scrutiny of the human situation, not entirely unmixed with social criticism.
		Menander's speech is clear and simple; he employed the ordinary Attic dialect of his own time; his chief meter was the iambic trimeter.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/menander (1053 words)

	Menander and His Comedies
		Menander, the son of Diopeithes, a well-known general, was born at Athens, B.C. He passed his youth in the house of his uncle and received from him and from Theophrastus instruction in poetry and philosophy, probably deriving from the latter in some measure the knowledge of character for which he was noted.
		His first comedy was produced when he was twenty-one years of age, and from that time until his death, which occurred some thirty years later while bathing in the harbor of the Piraeus, he wrote more than a hundred plays, eight of them winning the prize.
		Menander is accepted as the best writer of the comedy of manners among the Greeks.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/menander001.html (478 words)

	Menander
		Menander, however, believed himself to be the better dramatist, and, according to Aulus Gellius, used to ask Philemon: "Don't you feel ashamed whenever you gain a victory over me?" According to Caecilius of Calacte, he was guilty of plagiarism, his one play being taken bodily from Antiphanes.
		Copies of his plays were known to Suïdas and Eustathius (10th and 11th centuries), and twenty-three of them, with commentary by Psellus, were said to have been in existence at Constantinople in the 16th century.
		He is praised by Plutarch in his Comparison of Menander and Aristophanes, and by Quintilian, who accepted the tradition that he was the author of the speeches published under the name of the Attic orator Charisius.
	www.nndb.com /people/886/000087625 (474 words)

	Sample Chapter for Lape, S.: Reproducing Athens: Menander’s Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City.
		Menander's family romances were just such producers of democratic orthodoxy: they make the democratic cultural order seem natural and thus the only one imaginable in spite of the manifold conditions challenging its dominance.
		Although Menander wrote in what was arguably among the most tumultuous and eventful periods in Athenian history, the chaos of the times barely surfaces in his extant plays and fragments.
		Menander's flexible but formulaic plot patterns establish a correspondence between the processes of biological and political reproduction that is the cornerstone of comedy's work both in and out of Athens.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/s7679.html (11648 words)

	Menander of Laodicea: a rhetor in context
		Menander of Laodicea (‘Menander Rhetor’) is the late ancient rhetorician most familiar to modern classicists, because of the two treatises on epideictic oratory bearing his name.
		This observation invites a reassessment of the significance of Menander himself, and of late ancient rhetoric in general: the widespread perception of late antique oratory as primarily epideictic sits uncomfortably with the predominantly forensic and deliberative orientation of Menander and other rhetoricians.
		Menander: the collection and analysis of the explicit evidence for Menander (2a); the source-critical analysis of the Demosthenes scholia, demonstrating Menander’s contribution (2b) and showing the classroom origins of his commentary (2c).
	www.leeds.ac.uk /classics/heath/Menander.htm (1416 words)

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		Menander’s life and a section on the discovery in 1957 of the entire play should enhance their appreciation of this work, and a detailed character study of the protagonist Knemon will afford sone understanding of his plight.
		I. Menander was not content simply to repeat the traditional qualities of stock figures like the cook and slaves: when he used old themes he made them a part only of an individual character, or he modified them; sometimes he even contradicted tradition to create an effect by the unexpectedness of his treatment.
		Menander is remarkable for presenting a great range of individualized and sympathetically treated slaves; he thought of them neither as mere instruments of their masters’ wishes nor as vehicles for comic interludes.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/2/84.02.07.x.html (5992 words)

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		Thus Menander is well known for Indian historians as a philosopher with superior knowledge in various schools of thought and not as a mighty conqueror.
		This is the first book to consider the plays of Menander primarily as performance pieces and to uncover the dramatic technique of this widely admired comic writer, whose plays had all but disappeared until the 1950s.
		In section III, "Entertainment," the mosaic of Menander, Glykera, and Comedy from the House of Menander stands for theater, a gladiator's helmet from Orvieto for the arena, and the Worcester and Honolulu pavements represent the hunt.
	espanol.lycos.com /info/menander.html (714 words)

	Amazon.ca: Menander the Plays and Fragments: Books: Menander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Menander was the founding father of European comedy.
		She explains what can be explained and accounted for, and freely admits to what is pure conjecture; since Menander's plays survive only in fragments, and since we don't know all of the concrete facts of his life, Miller's candor is welcome and helpful.
		Menander was said to be "second only to Homer" and it is clear why this statement was made in this translation by Norma Miller.
	www.amazon.ca /Menander-Plays-Fragments/dp/0192839837 (916 words)

	Menander (342 B.C. - 291 B.C.)
		Menander, the child of a distinguished family, wrote more than 100 plays during a career that spanned about thirty-three years.
		Menander's characters spoke in the contemporary dialect and concerned themselves not with the great myths of the past, but rather with the everyday affairs of the people of Athens.
		At some point, however, his manuscripts were lost or destroyed, and what we now know of the poet is based primarily on ancient reports, a few manuscripts which have been recovered in the last hundred years, and adaptations by the Roman playwrights Plautus and Terence.
	www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc14.htm (322 words)

	Menander - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Menander (341-290 BC) was the most distinguished author of Greek New Comedy.
		These confirm Menander’s skill in drawing humorous or romantic characters and making good dramatic use of a limited range of plots with stock scenes of disguise and recognition.
		Menander’s plays were revived in Athens after his death and some of them were adapted for the Roman stage by Plautus and Terence, through whom they strongly influenced light drama from the Renaissance onwards.
	www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000022160,00.html (175 words)

	TheManSheHated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Man She Hated is one of several of Menander’s plays that we only have a few fragments of.
		Born 324 BC Died 292 BC Menander was an Athenian dramatist whom ancient critics considered the supreme poet of Greek New Comedy.
		Menander's works were much adapted by the Roman writers Plautus and Terence.
	www.loyno.edu /~tmterrel/greekandroman.htm (362 words)

	Greek and Roman Comedy
		THE comedy of Aristophanes was a medley of boisterous comic-opera and of lofty lyric poetry, of vulgar ballet and of patriotic oratory, of indecent farce and of pungent political satire, of acrobatic pantomime and of brilliant literary criticism, of cheap burlesque and of daringly imaginative fantasy.
		To Menander himself the deprivation is most injurious, since he obviously possessed the delicacy of perception that would have enabled him to handle feminine character with insight and subtlety.
		It has been suggested that there was in Menander something of the well-bred ease of the man of the world, such as we see it in Thackeray, and that in Terence there is rather the terseness and high finish of Congreve.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/comedy001.html (6236 words)

	Menander
		Author of about 100 plays, Menander was regarded by the ancients as the greatest playwright of all.
		Menander's influence on our own comedic writing is deeper than many realize or admit.
		We know next to nothing about Menander's life, except that it is clear that he had an excellent education.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /menander.htm (773 words)

	Sebastiana NERVEGNA The Reception of Menander during his Lifetime
		Modern scholars generally adhere to the view that Menander's plays were as unsuccessful at the time of their first performance as they were to become popular after his death.
		Finally, Menander's affiliation with the Peripatetic circle seems to have figured largely in his contemporary reception: Menander consistently brought onto the stage the kind of comedy promoted by Aristotle and his circle, and the Peripatos in turn promoted Menander.
		Not only were Menander's comedies known in and out of Athens by the beginning of the fourth century BC, but the Peripatetic circle had turned Menander into a cultural icon well before Aristophanes of Byzantion granted him a secure spot in the canon of the Greek authors.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/nervegna.html (351 words)

	Menander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Menander (342-291): Athenian playwright, author of many comedies, which are only fragmentary preserved and best known from Roman adaptations.
		In the plays of Menander, the story is more or less credible (if one is willing to accept doppelgänger and frequent cases of mistaken identity and misunderstanding) and the characters are realistic.
		Julius Caesar, on crossing the Rubico, quoted Menander: "the die is cast".
	www.livius.org /men-mh/menander/menander.html (171 words)

	Menander - History for Kids!
		Menander is the only playwright from the Hellenistic period whose plays survive.
		Menander is the first person we know of who wrote this kind of story.
		Menander and the Making of Comedy, by J. Michael Walton and Peter D. Arnott (1996).
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/literature/menander.htm (250 words)

	menander
		Now Aristophanes is neither pleasing to the many nor endurable to the thoughtful, but his poetry is like a harlot who has passed her prime and then takes up the role of a wife, whose presumption the many cannot endure and whose licentiousness and malice the dignified abominate.
		Menander's art, however, can best be appreciated by setting it in the context of Menander's Athens, rather than by comparing his comedy directly to Aristophanes'.
		But Menander has a surprise in Act V. Menander transfers the conflict within the household from the erotic relationship to the one between father and son, bringing the filial relationship to light as the chief interest of the drama.
	www.vroma.org /~araia/menander.htm (1353 words)

	Menander I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Menander I (also known as Milinda in Sanskrit, Pali), was one of the rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in northern India from 155 or 150 to 130 BC.
		Menander was the first Indo-Greek ruler to introduce the representation of Athena Alkidemos ("Athena, saviour of the people") on his coins, probably in reference to a similar statue of Athena Alkidemos in Pella, capital of Macedon.
		Altogether, the conversion of Menander to Buddhism suggested by the Milinda Panha seems to have triggered the use of Buddhist symbolism in one form or another on the coinage of close to half of the kings who succeeded him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Menander_the_Just (3824 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.04.30
		Menander's biography comes from the Suda, and a partial bibliography is given in the Suda and a fifth-century letter preserved on papyrus.
		The majority of fragments that name Menander come from his commentary on Demosthenes; the number and contents of the fragments show clearly that Menander was an authoritative commentator on Demosthenes who was known for analyzing the arguments of the orator's speeches using issue-theory.
		H.'s main goal here is to supplement the named fragments of Menander by using their contents to help identify anonymous material in the scholia that may ultimately derive from Menander.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-04-30.html (1354 words)

	Harvard University Press: Aspis. Georgos. Dis Exapaton. Dyskolos. Encheiridion. Epitrepontes by Menander
		Menander, the dominant figure in New Comedy, wrote over 100 plays.
		Menander was highly regarded in antiquity and his plots, set in Greece, were adapted for the Roman world by Plautus and Terence.
		Among these are the recently published fragments of Misoumenos ("The Man She Hated"), which sympathetically presents the flawed relationship of a soldier and a captive girl; and the surviving half of Perikeiromene ("The Girl with Her Hair Cut Short"), a comedy of mistaken identity and lovers' quarrel.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L132.html (271 words)

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