• Dyskolos (Greek: Δύσκολος, pronounced [dýskolos], translated as The Grouch, The Misanthrope, The Curmudgeon, The Bad-tempered Man or Old Cantankerous)...
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    by Menander at Faded Page (Canada) An English translation of the Dyskolos. Dyskolos, translated by G. Theodoridis Perikeiromene, translated by F. G. Allinson...
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    reformations he offered (not always convincingly) is Cnemon from Menander's play Dyskolos, whose objections to life suddenly fade after he was rescued from a well...
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    Manetho: Aegyptiaca Theocritus, lyric poet Euclid: Elements Menander: Dyskolos Theophrastus: Enquiry into Plants Old Latin Livius Andronicus, Gnaeus Naevius...
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    representative texts being those of Menander (born 342/341 BC). Only one play, Dyskolos, survives in its entirety. The plots of this new Hellenistic comedy of...
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  • Dyskolos Keros Ya Pringipes (Greek: Δύσκολος Καιρός Για Πρίγκιπες; English: A tough time for princes) is the name of the debut album of the Greek musical...
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    sired it." He also uses this theme in other plays, such as Dyskolos. In contrast to Dyskolos, Epitrepontes, Perikeiromene and other, more fragmentary plays...
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  • contempt or hatred of humanity The Misanthrope, a 1666 play by Molière Dyskolos, sometimes translated The Misanthrope, an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander...
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    pp. 445–464. Arnott, W. G. "A Note on the Parallels between Menander's 'Dyskolos' and Plautus' 'Aulularia," Phoenix 18.3 (1964), pp. 232–237. Baldwin, T...
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    curmudgeon usually has more sympathetic traits that are revealed over the course of a work of fiction. Knemon in Dyskolos, Alf Garnett, Grinch, Daisy Werthan...
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