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I read Dyskolos for a class this semester, and while I was initially worried I would struggle to understand and enjoy a play from the 4th century BC, I was happily surprised at how entertaining it turned out to be. The plot revolves around a young, well-to-do man called Sostratus who falls in love with the nameless daughter of the fearsome misanthrope Knemon (or Cnemon, in my translation) and, desperate to marry Knemon's beautiful daughter, suffers through a bit of trouble to earn her hand. Granted, my translation had some rather modern expressions and insults which seemed a bit bizarre given the fact that Dyskolos is an Ancient Greek comedy, but I nevertheless enjoyed it and wish I would have come across the play sooner as its author, Menander, apparently wrote over 100 comedies and was incredibly successful in his time, which is fascinating.