Cairo Codex

The Cairo Codex is a manuscript discovered in 1907 that contained the first significant fragments of plays by the ancient Greek playwright Menander. It included large parts of Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), Perikeiromene (The Girl with her Hair Cut Short) and Samia (The Girl from Samos), as well as some hundred lines of Heros (The Hero), and sixty-four lines of an otherwise unknown play.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ The Plays and Fragments. Oxford University Press. 8 May 2008. p. xxxi. ISBN 978-0-19-954073-0.
^ Easterling, P. E.; Knox, Bernard M. W. (1989). The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 2, Greek Drama. Cambridge University Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-521-35982-5.
^ Anderson, William. "1997.10.07, Menander, Vol. 2. Pp. x + 501. Loeb Classical Library 459. – Bryn Mawr Classical Review". Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

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[1] The Plays and Fragments. Oxford University Press. 8 May 2008. p. xxxi. ISBN 978-0-19-954073-0.

[2] Easterling, P. E.; Knox, Bernard M. W. (1989). The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 2, Greek Drama. Cambridge University Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-521-35982-5.

[3] Anderson, William. "1997.10.07, Menander, Vol. 2. Pp. x + 501. Loeb Classical Library 459. – Bryn Mawr Classical Review". Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

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