Dyskolos

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Dyskolos (Greek: Δύσκολος translated as The Grouch The Misanthrope The Curmudgeon The Bad-tempered Man or Old Cantankerous) is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander the only one of his plays and of the whole New Comedy that has survived in almost complete form. It was first presented at the Lenaian festival in 317–16 BC where it won Menander the first-place prize.

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author

Menander

character in play

* Daos a slave, * Getas a slave, * Girl Knemon's daughter, * Gorgias her brother, * Kallippides Sostratos' father, * Khaireas the gofer, * Knemon the grouch, * Pan, * Pyrrhias a slave, * Sikon a cook, * Simikhe a slave, * Sostratos, * Sostratos' Mother

chorus character in play

Worshippers of Pan

genre

Ancient Greek comedy

mute character in play

* Donax a slave, * Myrrhine Gorgias' mother, * Other slaves female relatives friends of Sostratos' mother

original language

Ancient Greek

premiere place

Lenaia, Classical Athens

premiere year

0317-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

setting of play

A country road in Phyle outside Athens near several farmsteads and a shrine of Pan.