Sententiae (corresponds to version Men Ar I) (Greek) [attributed]
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Menander
Menander
c. 342 BCE–c. 290 BCE · Athens
Menander of Athens (c. 342-c. 290 BCE) was the leading playwright of Greek New Comedy, which turned away from political satire toward comedies of everyday domestic life, love, and mistaken identity. Admired throughout antiquity, his plays survive mainly in fragments and on papyrus, with one play, 'Dyskolos' (The Grouch), recovered nearly complete in modern times. He profoundly influenced Roman comedy and the later European stage.
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About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Isocrates, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Menander’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Isocrates, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion, Heraclides Ponticus, Hyperides, Lycurgus, Hegesippus, Aeschines, Philip of Opus, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Demades, Aristoxenus, Theophrastus, Dinarchus
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Menander’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.