biography
pronunciation:
[menander]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.343–291 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek comic playwright, born in Athens, Greece. He wrote more than 100 comedies, but only a few fragments of his work were known until 1906, when a papyrus containing 1328 lines from four different plays was discovered in Egypt. In 1957, however, the complete text of the comedy Dyskolos (‘The Bad-Tempered Man’) was brought to light in Geneva. |
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