The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii is famous for its mysterious frescoes of Bacchus cult, making it one of the best Roman ...

People traveled far to see the athletes competing in the famous games. The rhetorician Menander (3rd/4th century AD) said of ...

Menander and Life! Which of you imitated which?' Aristophanes of Byzantium The third-century scholar Aristophanes of Byzantium, one of Alexandria's greatest figures, certainly knew Greek literature ...

After this Saint Patrick was beheaded with the presbyters Acacius, Menander, and Polyaenus. Most likely, this was during the reign of Diocletian (284-305). Thy Martyrs, O Lord, in their courageous ...

Later Greek leaders however conquered much of northwest India; the most famous, Menander (ruled c. 155-130 BCE), struck down the Ganges as far as Patna and according to legend later became a Buddhist.

Baumbach, Manuel Kugelmeier, Christoph von Möllendorff, Peter Rubel, Alexander Will, Wolfgang Hattendorff, Claudia Piepenbrink, Karen Schmitz, Thomas De Brasi, Diego ...

The first master of comedy was the playwright Aristophanes. Much later Menander wrote comedies about ordinary people and made his plays more like sit-coms. Tragedy: Tragedy dealt with the big ...