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
Athens, the capital of Greece since 1834, was the leading intellectual centre of the classical Greek world. Socrates taught there, and four major philosophical schools took root in the city: Plato's Academy, founded around 387 BCE, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa of Zeno, and Epicurus' Garden. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule Athens remained a place of study that drew students from across the empire; in the 4th century CE the Christian writers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus studied there together, while Neoplatonist teachers kept lecturing. Emperor Justinian's ban on pagan teaching of philosophy in 529 is generally taken to mark the end of the city's ancient history.
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.