Dyskolos
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Dyskolos is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander, the only one of his plays, and of the whole New Comedy, that has survived in nearly complete form. It was first presented at the Lenaian festival in At
Menander with masks depicting New Comedy characters: youth, false maiden, and the old man, Princeton University Art Museum
Comic figurine possibly depicting Knemon (the Grouch) c. 330 BCE
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubb
Dyskolos
…papyrus manuscript of the nearly complete Dyskolos, dating to the 3rd century, was recovered in Egypt in 1952 and forms part of the Bodmer Papyri and Oxyrhynchus Papyri. The play was published in 1958 by Victor Martin. The story of the play concerns a rich young nobleman, Sostratos, who falls in love at first sight…
Grenfell (left) and Hunt (right) in about 1896
Excavations at Oxyrhynchus 1, c. 1903.
One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 (P. Oxy. 29). The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.
Lines 96–138 of the Ichneutae on a fragment of Papyrus Oxyrhynchus IX 1174 col. iv–v, which provides the majority of the surviving portion of the play