The Loeb Classical Library: Menander, Volume I : Aspis. Georgos. Dis Exapaton. Dyskolos. Encheiridion. Epitrepontes

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The Loeb Classical Library: Menander, Volume I : Aspis. Georgos. Dis Exapaton. Dyskolos. Encheiridion. EpitrepontesMenander (? 344 3292 1 BC) of Athens, the leading playwright of the New Comedy, wrote more than 100 plays. Many of his comedies were adapted by Roman dramatists. By the middle ages, however, his works were lost. Then, at the end of the nineteenth century, papyrus texts, preserved from antiquity by the dry heat of Egypt, began to be discovered. These have yielded so far one play virtually complete (Dyskolos), large continuous portions of four more

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