Menander
c. 342 – c. 290 B.C.E.
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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