More successful with cultured audiences than with the masses, Quintilian praised him and Terence imitated  him.
More successful with cultured audiences than with the masses, Quintilian praised him and Terence imitated  him. In 1905 Lefebvre discovered 1328 lines from three of his plays on an Egyptian papyrus. In 1957 his only  extant complete play, Dyskolos or The Bad-Tempered Man was found on a palimpsest in Geneva. A sophisticated  and witty playwright of over 100 comedies, many of his works were adopted by Plautus. FTP identify this man  who lived from 342-292 BC, one of the best known writers of the Greek New Comedy.
More successful with cultured audiences than with the masses, Quintilian praised him and Terence imitated  him.
Menander