Menander

[ muh-nan-der ]

noun

1. 342?–291 b.c., Greek writer of comedies.

Menander

/ məˈnændə /

noun

1. Menander?160 bc?120 bcMGreekPOLITICS: hereditary ruler ?160 bc –?120 bc , Greek king of the Punjab. A Buddhist convert, he reigned over much of NW India
2. Menander?342 bc?292 bcMGreekTHEATRE: dramatist ?342–?292 bc , Greek comic dramatist. The Dyskolos is his only complete extant comedy but others survive in adaptations by Terence and Plautus

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The Milinda Panda mentions the royal astrologer as one of the principal functionaries of Menander.

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Menander Euripides Theocritus Thucydides was playing close by the pasture-bars.

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But nothing can be inferred from this declamation, except, perhaps, that he did not know whether Menander still existed or not.

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And Menander, in his Trophonius, uses the word in the same sense.

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Menander too mentions him in his Cecryphalus, calling him Pternocopis only.

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