Dyskolos

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Dyskolos is an ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Menander, renowned as one of the best-preserved examples of New Comedy.

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Dyskolos canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek comedy
play
stage work
alternativeTitle The Grouch
Le Misanthrope
surface form: The Misanthrope
author Menander
countryOfOrigin Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
dramaticForm five-act structure (reconstructed)
firstPerformanceCity Athens
firstPerformanceLocation Lenaia festival
firstPerformanceYear 316 BC
genre New Comedy
hasCharacterType clever slave
cook
misanthropic old man
young lover
hasModernPerformances yes
influenced later European comedy
isOneOfBestPreservedExamplesOf New Comedy
isOneOfBestPreservedWorksOf Menander
literaryPeriod Hellenistic period
literarySignificance key source for understanding Greek New Comedy conventions
mainCharacter Chaireas
Daos
Getas
Girl (Knemon’s daughter)
Gorgias
Knemon
Pyrrhias
Sikyona
surface form: Sikon

Simiche
Sostratos
movement New Comedy
surface form: Greek New Comedy
originalLanguage Ancient Greek
plotSummary A wealthy young man Sostratos falls in love with the daughter of the misanthropic farmer Knemon and must win her hand despite Knemon’s hostility to society.
rediscoveredAt Oxyrhynchus Papyri
surface form: Oxyrhynchus papyri
rediscoveryCentury 20th century
setting rural Attica
village of Phyle
structure choral interludes
episodes
exodos
prologue
survivalStatus substantially complete text
theme class differences
family relationships
love and marriage
misanthropy
social reconciliation

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Menander notableWork Dyskolos
Menander fullPlaySurvives Dyskolos
New Comedy notableWork Dyskolos