Menander (disambiguation)
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Menander is an Anglicized form of the Greek
, Menandros, "staunch man" or "abiding man." It may refer to:
Persons:
Other:
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
, Menandros, "staunch man" or "abiding man." It may refer to:
Persons:
- MenanderMenanderMenander , Greek dramatist, the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso...
, Greek dramatist - Menander (general)Menander (general)Menander was an officer in the service of Alexander the Great. He was one of those called etairoi, but he held the command of a body of mercenaries. He was appointed by Alexander to the government of Lydia, during the settlement of the affairs of Asia made by Alexander when at Tyre...
, general of Alexander the Great - Menander IMenander IMenander I Soter "The Saviour" was one of the rulers of the Indo-Greek Kingdom from either 165 or 155 BC to 130 BC ....
, Indo-Greek king - Menander IIMenander IIMenander II "The Just" was an Indo-Greek King who ruled in the areas of Arachosia and Gandhara in the north of modern Pakistan.-Time of reign:...
, Indo-Greek king - Menander of LaodiceaMenander of LaodiceaMenander of Laodicea on the Lycus was a Greek rhetorician and commentator.Two incomplete treatises on epideictic speeches have been preserved under his name, but it is generally considered that they cannot be by the same author...
, Greek rhetorician - Menander ProtectorMenander ProtectorMenander Protector , Byzantine historian, was born in Constantinople in the middle of the 6th century AD. The little that is known of his life is contained in the account of himself quoted by Suidas. He at first took up the study of law, but abandoned it for a life of pleasure...
, Byzantine historian and ethnographer - Menander of EphesusMenander of EphesusMenander of Ephesus was the historian whose lost work on the history of Tyre was used by Josephus, who quotes Menander's list of kings of Tyre in his apologia for the Jews, Against Apion...
, (ca. early 2nd century BCE), wrote a history of Tyre, Lebanon - A student of Simon Magus and his successor as leader of Simonianism
Other:
- The House of MenanderHouse of MenanderThe House of Menander is a building in Pompeii, Italy. It is located in the southern half of the town, just northeast of the Little and Large Theaters, as well as the Gladiators’ barracks...
, in Pompeii, named for its fresco of a poet - Menander (butterfly), a genus of metalmark butterflies in the tribe of NymphidiiniNymphidiiniThe Nymphidiini are one of the larger tribes of metalmark butterflies . As numerous Riodinidae genera have not yet been unequivocally assigned to a tribe, the genus list is preliminary. The Theopina subtribe was formerly considered a distinct tribe Theopini....