Examine the life, times, and work of Menander through detailed author biographies on eNotes.

The rediscovery of Menander is a continuing process, and few are willing to predict that it will end soon.

Menander is known to have studied under Theophrastus, the successor of Aristotle as leader of the Peripatetic School, adapting what he learned about tragedy for his comedies.

Menander seems also to have accepted Aristotle’s dictum that plot is the soul of a drama. Like many truisms about ancient men of letters, this comes in the form of an anecdote.

Provides biographical information; discusses Menander's popularity during his lifetime, immediately after his death, and in modern times, and evaluates his overall achievement. Easterling, Pat.

Introduction Principal Works Essays Menander, and the Transformation of Comedy Menander and the Dyskolos The Comedy of Menander Dyskolos (The Grouch): A Play of Combinations Grouch Menander in ...

Menander also resolves the class issue in Grouch by displacing it onto the theme of the misanthrope's idiosyncratic unsociability.

SOURCE: Walton, J. Michael and Peter D. Arnott. “Menander in Time and Place.” In Menander and the Making of Comedy, pp. 21-43. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. [ In the following excerpt ...

Menander's play had opened with a monologue of the old man; Terence has turned this into a dialogue by adding Sosia, who is a 'protatic' character—that is, he will not appear again after this ...

Menander is using the figure of the misanthrope for comic effect, but by compressing and rationing out these farcical approaches he prevents his dyskolos from being identified as a completely ...