Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six comedies based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. Terence's plays were originally staged around 166–160 BC.
Terence, 9th-century illustration, possibly copied from 3rd-century original
Mosaic from the House of the Tragic Poet depicting preparations for a Greek play
Humorous engraving by John Leech of Terence reading the Andria to Caecilius
Model of a Greek ship of the 1st Century BC, reconstructed from the Mahdia shipwreck
Menander was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown.
Bust of Menander. Marble, Roman copy of the Imperial era after a Greek original (c. 343–291 BC).
Roman, Republican or Early Imperial, Relief of a seated poet (Menander) with masks of New Comedy, 1st century BC – early 1st century AD, Princeton University Art Museum
Seated portrait of Menander, Roman fresco from the Casa del Menandro in Pompeii
A papyrus fragment of the Perikeiromene, ll. 976–1008 (P. Oxy. 211 II 211, 1st or 2nd century AD)
