person
Menander
also: Menandri, Menander
The leading poet of Athenian New Comedy (c. 342-291 BC), whose plays were the models for the Latin comedies of Caecilius and Terence. Cicero invokes him as the Greek original behind Latin adaptations such as Caecilius's Synephebi and Terence's Andria.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §1.4 both originals by Menander
Menander was the foremost poet of Athenian New Comedy and the Greek model behind both Caecilius's Synepheboi and Terence's Andria. The point is that the same critic professes to prefer the two Menandrian originals to the Latin versions.