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1. Menander: Menander (341-290 B.C.) is considered the most important of those Greek playwrights involved in the school of New Comedy. Only one of the more than 100 plays he is known to have written can be considered anywhere near ... [100%] 2023-02-10 [Playwrights]
2. Menander: Menander, Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New comedy, was born at Athens. He was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese ... [100%] 2022-09-02
3. Menander: When the Graeco-Indian king Demetrius had been beaten by Eucratides of Bactria, about 160 B., and the kingdom of Eucratides (q., a Greek dynasty maintained itself in the Kabul Valley and the Punjab. [100%] 2022-09-02
4. Menander: Menander, of Laodicea on the Lycus, Greek rhetorician and commentator. Two incomplete treatises on epideictic (or show) speeches have been preserved under his name, but it is generally considered that they cannot be by the same author. Bursian attributes the ... [100%] 2022-09-02
5. Menander: Menander es un género de mariposas de la familia Riodinidae.​ Existen 11 especies reconocidas en el género, 10 de ellas tienen distribución neotropical.​ Las especies del género Menander se alimentan de plantas de las familias Clusiaceae, Marcgraviaceae. Las plantas hospederas ... [100%] 2023-11-24
6. Menander: Putative author of a collection of proverbs, in a Syriac manuscript in the British Museum, edited in 1862 by Land, and bearing the superscription, "The sage said. Either this Menander was a real person, a Hellenistic Jew whose proverbs, probably ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
7. Menander Protector: Menander Protector, Byzantine historian, was born in Constantinople in the middle of the 6th century A. The little that is known of his life is contained in the account of himself quoted by Suidas. He at first took up the ... [70%] 2022-09-02
8. Menander I: Menander I Soter, (The Saviour), known as Milinda in Indian sources, was one of the Indo-Greek rulers in northern India from c. 155 B.C.E. to 130 B.C.E. His territories covered the eastern dominions of the ... [70%] 2023-02-03
9. Menander Rhetor: Menander Rhetor (Greek: Μένανδρος Ῥήτωρ), also known as Menander of Laodicea (Greek: Μένανδρος ὁ Λαοδικεύς), was a Greek rhetorician and commentator of the 3rd or 4th century AD. Two incomplete treatises on epideictic speeches have been preserved under his name, but it is generally considered ... (3rd or 4th century Greek rhetorician and commentator) [70%] 2023-10-20 [Ancient Greek rhetoricians]
10. Menander I: Menander I Soter (Ancient Greek: Μένανδρος Σωτήρ, romanized: Ménandros Sōtḗr, Menander the Saviour; Pali: Milinda), was a Greco-Bactrian and later Indo-Greek King (reigned c. 165/155 –130 BC) who administered a large territory in the Northwestern regions of the Indian ... (2nd-century BCE Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek king) [70%] 2023-11-27 [Menander I] [2nd-century BC Buddhists]...
11. Menander II: Menander II Dikaios (Greek: Μένανδρος Β΄ ὁ Δίκαιος; epithet means "the Just") may have been an Indo-Greek King who ruled in the areas of Arachosia and Gandhara in the north of modern Pakistan. However, since he is entirely known through his coins, this ... [70%] 2023-12-29 [Indo-Greek kings] [1st-century BC monarchs in Asia]...
12. Menander (general): Menander (Greek: Μένανδρος; fl. 4th century BC) was an officer in the service of Alexander the Great. (General) [70%] 2023-09-27 [Ancient Macedonian generals] [Generals of Alexander the Great]...
13. House of Menander: The House of Menander (Italian: Casa del Menandro) is one of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration and contents, and covers a large area of about 1,800 square metres (19,000 ... (Building in Pompei, Italy) [57%] 2023-11-29 [Buildings and structures completed in the 1st century BC] [Houses of Pompeii]...
14. Aspis (Menander): Aspis (Greek: Ἀσπίς, translated as The Shield) is a comedy by Menander (342/41 – 292/91 BC) that is only partially preserved on papyrus. Of a total of ca. (Menander) [70%] 2023-06-24 [Plays by Menander] [Hellenistic Athens]...