Menander
quoted 5 times by 3 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Menander the figure
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
5 carried
1 refuted 3 endorsedquoted by
3 works-
Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 endorsed 3 citations · 5 passages
Menander is explicitly named and quoted approvingly.
"All things that are sought, the wisest say, have need of care.
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 refuted 1 citation
Menander is quoted urging worship of the Sun first among the gods, a view Clement judges mistaken.
"O Sun, you must worship first of the gods, through whom it is possible to behold the other gods.
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 endorsed 1 citation · 2 passages
Cites and recommends Menander's comic works as reading material, with explicit reasoning for the preference.
And let none of the wiser sort blame me for having preferred Menander to the old comedy, or Euripides to the old tragedians;
oration 88 ¶
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- roman
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