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A Short Biography of Menander

Author Name:

Menander

Born As:

Menander

Other Names:

Born:

342

Died:

291




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Dramatic poet                          
Selected Works:

Aspis - The Shield
Georgos - The Farmer
Dis Exapaton - Double Deceiver
Dyskolos - Old Cantankerous or The Grouch, the only play that survives in its entirety
Encheiridion - Handbook
Epitrepontes - Men at Arbitration"; most
Heros - The Hero
Hypobolimaios - The Changeling
Karchedonios - Carthaginian
Kitharistes - The Harper
Kolax - The Toady or Flatterer
Koneiazomenai - Drugged Women
Leukadia
Methe - Drunkenness
Misoumenos - The Man She Hated
Naukleros - The Ship's Captain
Orge - Anger
Perikeiromene - Girl who has her hair cropped; George Bernard Shaw suggested Rape of the Locks, after Alexander Pope
Perinthia - Girl from Perinthos
Plokion - The Necklace
Pseudherakles - The Fake Hercules
Samia - Girl from Samos"; four out of five sections
Sikyonioi or Sikyonios - Sicyonian(s)
Synaristosai- Those who eat together at noon; The Ladies Who Lunch
Phasma - The Phantom
Theophoroumene - The Possessed Girl
Trophonios - Trophonius.
                          
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Menander - 
An English translation of Dyskolos
Menander: Monosticha / Sententiae / Einzelverse Sentences from Menander's work in the original Greek and translated in Latin and German
SORGLL: Menander, Dyskolos, 711-747; read by Mark Miner