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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: New Comedy
genre: comedy
country of citizenship: Classical Athens
native language: Ancient Greek
languages spoken, written or signed: Ancient Greek
educated at: peripatetic school
occupation: comedy writer, poet
award received: Lenaia
student of: Alexis, Theophrastus
Menander (; Greek: Μένανδρος Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown. He was one of the most popular writers in antiquity, but his work was lost during the Middle Ages and is now known in highly fragmentary form, much of which was discovered in the 20th century. Only one play, Dyskolos, has survived almost complete. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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