Dyskolos
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Dyskolos (, , translated as The Grouch, The Misanthrope, The Curmudgeon, The Bad-tempered Man or Old Cantankerous) is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander, the only one of his plays, and of the whole New Comedy, that has survived in nearly complete form. It was first presented at the Lenaian festival in Athens in 316 BCE, where it won Menander the first prize.
Key facts
- Play.name
- Dyskolos
- Play.writer
- Menander
- Play.chorus
- Worshippers of Pan
- Play.setting
- A country road in Phyle outside Athens in front of a temple of Pan.
- Play.premiere
- 316 BCE
- Play.place
- Lenaia Festival, Athens
- Play.orig_lang
- Ancient Greek
- Play.genre
- New Comedy
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Setting
- Prologue
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Act 4
- Act 5
- Character descriptions
- Thematic Analysis
- Manuscripts
- Modern performance
- Translations
- References
- Citations
- External links
Dyskolos (, , translated as The Grouch, The Misanthrope, The Curmudgeon, The Bad-tempered Man or Old Cantankerous) is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander, the only one of his plays, and of the whole New Comedy, that has survived in nearly complete form. It was first presented at the Lenaian festival in Athens in 316 BCE, where it won Menander the first prize.
It was long known only through fragmentary quotations; but a papyrus manuscript of the nearly complete Dyskolos, dating to the 3rd century, was recovered in Egypt in 1952 and forms part of the Bodmer Papyri and Oxyrhynchus Papyri. The play was published in 1958 by Victor Martin.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dyskolos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.