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MENANDER , of See also:

Laodicea on the Lycus, See also:Greek rhetorician and commentator. Two incomplete See also:treatises on epideictic (or show) speeches have been preserved under his name, but it is generally considered that they cannot be by the same author. See also:Bursian attributes the first to Menander, whom he placed in the 4th See also:century, and the second to an See also:anonymous rhetorician of See also:Alexandria Troas, who possibly lived in the See also:time of See also:Diocletian. Others, from the superscription of the See also:Paris MS., assign the first to Genethlius of Petrae in See also:Palestine. In view of the See also:general tradition of antiquity, that both treatises were the See also:work of Menander, it is possible that the author of the second was not identical with the Menander mentioned by Suidas; since the name is of frequent occurrence in later Greek literature. The first See also:treatise, entitled See also:bad/mats Twv E,rLS&LKTLKWV, discusses the different kinds of epideictic speeches; the second, IIepi ,7rtheuertiLY, has See also:special titles for each See also:chapter. See also:Text in L. Spengel's Rhetores graeci, iii. 329-446, and in C. Bursian's " Der Rhetor Menandros and See also:seine Schriften " in Abhandl. der bayer. Akad. der Wissenschaften, xvi. (1882); see also W.

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die Scholien zu See also:Demosthenes; J. E. See also:Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship (1906), i. 338; W. See also:Christ, Gesch. der griechischen Litteratur (1898), § 550.

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