Italy: A Roman fresco of Menander (c. 342/41 - c. 290 BCE), Greek dramatist and representative of Athenian New Comedy, Casa del Menandro (House of Menander), Pompeii

Menander (c. 342/41 – c. 290 BCE) wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. One of the most popular writers of antiquity, his work was lost during the Middle Ages and is known in modernity in highly fragmentary form, much of which was discovered in the 20th century. Only one play, Dyskolos, has survived almost entirely.

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David Henley

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