Menander is the last great Athenian literary artist whose writings have survived from antiquity. He wrote over 100 plays, yet only one complete work exists today: The Misanthrope (Greek: Duskolos). Portions of other plays are known from quotations by later ancient authors and by modern archaeological discoveries of papyrus remnants in Egypt, where Menander was apparently a favorite author of the Greco-Roman educated classes during the Roman Empire.
David Sacks, Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World, rev. ed., rev. Lisa R. Brody (New York: Facts On File, 2005), 207.
About Menander
Menander is the last great Athenian literary artist whose writings have survived from antiquity. He wrote over 100 plays, yet only one complete work exists today: The Misanthrope (Greek: Duskolos). Portions of other plays are known from quotations by later ancient authors and by modern archaeological discoveries of papyrus remnants in Egypt, where Menander was apparently a favorite author of the Greco-Roman educated classes during the Roman Empire.
David Sacks, Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World, rev. ed., rev. Lisa R. Brody (New York: Facts On File, 2005), 207.
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