Menander

Menander (c. 342/341 to c. 290 BC) was a Greek playwright and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, writing 108 comedies and winning the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. Long ranked among antiquity's most popular writers and admired poets, his work was thought lost by the early Middle Ages and survived afterward mainly through Latin adaptations by Terence and Plautus and, in the original Greek, in fragmentary form recovered from papyri found in Egyptian tombs during the early to mid twentieth century. In the 1950s a single play, Dyskolos, was rediscovered intact enough to be performed among the Bodmer Papyri, to considerable excitement among classicists.