Menander
Americannoun
noun
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?160 bc –?120 bc , Greek king of the Punjab. A Buddhist convert, he reigned over much of NW India
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?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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But in the next line, his contemporary Menander asserts that though it may rob us of our vitality, time nevertheless “adds to our acuity of mind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Menander converted to Buddhism and became a holy man, known in India as Milinda.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
His successors, such as Menander I, converted to Buddhism and extended their kingdom deep into the Gangetic plain.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
The Romans copied the Greeks, and thank goodness they did; much of what happened in the age of Socrates, Plato and Menander is known to us only through Roman facsimiles.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015
Cleopatra read Homer’s epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, poetry by Hesiod and Pindar; and plays by Euripides and Menander.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
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