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Name: Menander
Birth Date: 342 B.C.
Death Date: 291 B.C.
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Place of Death: Athens, Greece
Nationality: Greek
Gender: Male
Occupations: playwright

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Biography of Menander
1,090 words, approx. 4 pages
Menander (342-291 BC) was an Athenian comic playwright. He was the acknowledged master of the so-called New Comedy in Greece. Famed for his realistic portrayal of situations and characters, he greatly influenced later comic dramatists. New Comedy was...
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Biography of Menander
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Translations in English: The Plays of Menander, edited and translated by Lionel Casson (New York: New York University Press, 1971); Menander. Plays and Fragments, translated, with an introduction, by Norma Miller (London: Penguin, 1987). Commentaries:...
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Biography of Menander
2,461 words, approx. 8 pages
The comedy of fourth-century Athens, which inspired the Roman plays of Plautus and Terence and, through their own revival in the Renaissance, modern traditions of comedy from William Shakespeare and Molière to Georges Feydeau and George Bernard...


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Menander Quotes
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Menander ( 342 BC – 291 BC ), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy , was born in Athens. Sourced We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. Lady of Andros , fragment 50 Riches cover a multitude of woes. The Boeotian Girl ,...


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Menander Information
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Menander (ca. 342–291 BC) (Greek: Μένανδρος), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy, was born in Athens. He was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and...


News and Journals
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Publishers Weekly
A Critic Who Does It All.(critic/author Louis Menand)(Interview)
05/28/2001: 2,281 words, approx. 8 pages
Across the street from Louis Menand's new office, the Empire State Building gleams; cross the hall, on a sunny Sunday morning, stand empty tables and chairs. Inside, Menand ("Luke" to his friends and acquaintances) sits comfortably amid books from all sorts of eras...
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The Boston Globe
American Eclectic Equally At Home In The Classroom And On The Page, Critic Louis Menand Defies Categorization
05/16/2001: 1,921 words, approx. 6 pages
NEW YORK - It wasn't much of a club, really, even by the catch-as- catch-can standards of Cambridge. It existed for just nine months in 1872. No one's sure what went on during the meetings, how many took place - or even if there...
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The New York Observer
Is the Cult of Rootsiness Ruining Dylan\'d5s Songs?
9/10/2006: 1,832 words, approx. 6 pages
O.K., here’s my idea: Maybe it’s time for Bob Dylan to shift from writing more songs to writing more books. Chronicles, the first volume of his memoirs, was brilliant; Modern Times, the new album, a wildly overhyped disappointment. I don’t want him to stop singing...
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The New York Observer
Is the Cult of Rootsiness Ruining Dylan's Songs?
9/10/2006: 1,836 words, approx. 6 pages
O.K., here’s my idea: Maybe it’s time for Bob Dylan to shift from writing more songs to writing more books. Chronicles, the first volume of his memoirs, was brilliant; Modern Times, the new album, a wildly overhyped disappointment. I don’t want him to stop singing...
 


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