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Menander


Born
Athens, Greece
Genre
Theater, Humor and Comedy


Greek: Μένανδος
Menander (ca. 342�291 BC), the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso. He presumably derived his taste for comic drama from his uncle Alexis. ...more

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Επιτέποντες
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Comedias: Menandro
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Menander: Samia, Sikyonioi,...
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Menandro e la Commedia Nuova
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Menander : The Grouch, Desp...
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Menander, Volume 1
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Ασπίς
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“He whom the gods love dies young.”
― Menander, The Plays and Fragments
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“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.”
― Menander
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“The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.”
― Menander of Athens
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