Menander

MENANDER

Menandros (Μένανδρος).
Born about 342 BCE in Kephisia, Athens.
Died about 290 BCE.
Wikipedia: English, French.

CAIRO CODEX

The arbitration.
(Ἐπιτρέποντες | Epitrepontes).
Greek: Edward Capps (1910).
English: The arbitration (Maurice Balme, 2001).
French: L’arbitrage (Alain Blanchard, 2013).

The shorn woman.
(Περικειρομένη | Perikeipomenê).
Greek: Edward Capps (1910).
English: The girl with the shaven head (Maurice Balme, 2001).
French: La tondue (Alain Blanchard, 2013).

The girl from Samos.
(Σαμία | Samia).
Greek: Edward Capps (1910).
English: The girl from Samos (Maurice Balme, 2001).
French: La Samienne (Jean-Marie Jacques, 1971).

The hero.
(Ἥρως | Hêrôs).
Greek: Edward Capps (1910).
English: The hero (Maurice Balme, 2001).
French: Le héros (Alain Blanchard, 2013).

Cairo fabula incerta.
French: La fabula incerta du Caire (Alain Blanchard, 2013).

BODMER CODEX

The bad-tempered man.
(Δύσκολος | Duskolos).
English: The bad-tempered man (Maurice Balme, 2001).
French: Le Dyscolos (Jean-Marie Jacques, 1963).

The shield.
(Ἀσπίς | Aspis).
English: The shield (Maurice Balme, 2001).
French: Le bouclier (Jean-Marie Jacques, 1998).

OTHER FRAGMENTARY COMEDIES

The hated man.
(Μισούμενος | Misoumenos).
English: The man she hated (Maurice Balme, 2001).
French: Le haï (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

The Sicyonians.
(Σικυώνιοι | Sikuônioi).
French: Les Sicyoniens (Alain Blanchard, 2009).

The farmer.
(Γεωργός | Geôrgos).
Greek: Jules Nicole (1898); — Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt (1898).
English: Γεωργός (Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, 1898); — The farmer (Maurice Balme, 2001).
French: Le cultivateur (Louis Poinsinet de Sivry, 1784); — Le laboureur (Jules Nicole, 1898); — Le laboureur (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

The double deceiver.
English: Twice a swindler (Maurice Balme, 2001).
French: La double tromperie (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

The dagger.
French: Le poignard (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

The eunuch.
French: L’eunuque (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

The girl possessed by a god.
French: L’inspirée (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

Thrasyleon.
French: Thrasyléon (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

The Carthaginian man.
French: Le Carthaginois (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

The citharist.
English: The lyre-player (Maurice Balme, 2001).
French: Le cithariste (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

The flatterer.
French: Le flatteur (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

Women drinking hemlock.
French: Les femmes qui boivent la ciguë (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

The woman from Leucas.
French: La Leucadienne (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

The woman from Perinthos.
French: La Périnthienne (Alain Blanchard, 2016).

The man from Sicyon.
English: The man from Sikyon (Maurice Balme, 2001).

The apparition.
English: The apparition (Maurice Balme, 2001).

Created on 22 May 2026.