How to pronounce“menander”in English

Cicero even called him a pint-sized Menander.

They’re so realistic that one ancient critic said Menander’s plays were indistinguishable from everyday experience, writing, "Menander or Life?

Terence wrote six plays, which borrowed heavily from Menander.

Which is impressive when you consider Menander’s plays were still being performed entirely by dudes wearing weird hair masks.

The fabula palliata mostly rip off New Comedy, chiefly the plays of Menander and a couple of his rivals, whose plays are lost.

The mix of lazzi and improvisation meant that, while most stories progressed along the usual Plautus-Terence-Menander-like lines, an audience never knew exactly which lazzi a stock character

But there were also two Roman theaters, one of which survived into the Middle Ages and likely produced the comedies of Menander.