In the canon
Plays and Fragments
Menander (earlier edition includes Characters by Theophrastus)
- Form
- Form Play
- Year
- Year 316 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 250
For centuries he existed as rumour: a name Rome adored, a shelf of one-line quotations, comedies known only through the Latin poets who rewrote them. Then the sands of Egypt gave back the papyri, and Dyskolos arrived nearly whole, a play about a sour old man digging alone in the hills of Attica who falls down his own well and has to be hauled out by the young men he has spent the play driving away.
it behooves That justice gain the upper hand, yes, everywhere, And every one that comes along should look to this And make it his concern.
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