Menander
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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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Menander converted to Buddhism and became a holy man, known in India as Milinda.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The most famous of the Bactrian kings of India was Menander I, whose kingdom stretched from the Indus River valley to the upper Ganges in central India.
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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