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Bust of Menander Roman, 1-25 AD Bronze Inventory # 77.AB.108 More than sixty portraits of the Greek comic playwright Menander (342-291 BC) have survived. All are based on a Greek bronze original sculpted by Kephisodotos the Younger and his brother Timarchos (both active 340-290 BC). The identity of these portraits was debated until the Greek inscription (Menander) on the base of this small bust was deciphered and proven to be ancient. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

Bust of Menander Roman, 1-25 AD Bronze Inventory # 77.AB.108 More than sixty portraits of the Greek comic playwright Menander (342-291 BC) have survived. All are based on a Greek bronze original sculpted by Kephisodotos the Younger and his brother Timarchos (both active 340-290 BC). The identity of these portraits was debated until the Greek inscription (Menander) on the base of this small bust was deciphered and proven to be ancient. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

Bust of Menander Roman, 100-150 AD Marble Inventory # 71.AA.120 Comedies by the Greek playwright Menander (342-291 BC) continued to be popular well into Roman times. This portrait bust was modeled after a Greek bronze sculpted by Kephisodotos the Younger and his brother Timarchos (both active 340-290 BC). Shortly after Menander's death the original statue was erected in the Theater of Dionysos in Athens as a commemorative monument. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

Bust of Menander Roman, 100-150 AD Marble Inventory # 71.AA.120 Comedies by the Greek playwright Menander (342-291 BC) continued to be popular well into Roman times. This portrait bust was modeled after a Greek bronze sculpted by Kephisodotos the Younger and his brother Timarchos (both active 340-290 BC). Shortly after Menander's death the original statue was erected in the Theater of Dionysos in Athens as a commemorative monument. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

Bust of Menander Roman, 100-150 AD Marble Inventory # 71.AA.120 Comedies by the Greek playwright Menander (342-291 BC) continued to be popular well into Roman times. This portrait bust was modeled after a Greek bronze sculpted by Kephisodotos the Younger and his brother Timarchos (both active 340-290 BC). Shortly after Menander's death the original statue was erected in the Theater of Dionysos in Athens as a commemorative monument. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

Bust of Menander Roman, 100-150 AD Marble Inventory # 71.AA.120 Comedies by the Greek playwright Menander (342-291 BC) continued to be popular well into Roman times. This portrait bust was modeled after a Greek bronze sculpted by Kephisodotos the Younger and his brother Timarchos (both active 340-290 BC). Shortly after Menander's death the original statue was erected in the Theater of Dionysos in Athens as a commemorative monument. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

Relief of a seated poet (Menander) with masks of New Comedy 1st century B.C. – early 1st century A.D. Roman Republican or Early Imperial White marble, probably Italian 44.3 x 59.5 x 8.5 cm. (17 7/16 x 23 7/16 x 3 3/8 in.) Museum purchase, Caroline G. Mather Fund Object Number: y1951-1 Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/ancient/search/ and Relief of a Seated Poet, probably Menander, with Comic Masks Roman, 1st century BC- early 1st century AD Formerly in the Stroganoff Collection, Rome Marble # Y1951-1 The seated man contemplating a comic mask is generally considered to be Menander (341-292 BC), the great New Comedy playwright whose works were much admired throughout the Roman Period. The identification is not certain– half of the man's head was restored in modern times– but the masks of a youth, female, and old man are stock types of New Comedy, and the way the man wears his himation around his hips, revealing his torso, is characteristic of portrayals of poets, philosophers, and other men of letters. A very similar relief in the Vatican has a draped female at the right, possibly Thalia, the Muse of Comedy. The seated poet on both reliefs may be based on a bronze statue of Menander erected soon after his death in the Theater of Dionysos in Athens. The unrolled scroll hanging from the table suggests that he has paused in composition to seek inspiration from the masks of his principal characters, whose open mouths almost seem to dictate their own dialogue. Text from the Princeton University Art Museum label.

Bust of Menander Roman, 100-150 AD Marble Inventory # 71.AA.120 Comedies by the Greek playwright Menander (342-291 BC) continued to be popular well into Roman times. This portrait bust was modeled after a Greek bronze sculpted by Kephisodotos the Younger and his brother Timarchos (both active 340-290 BC). Shortly after Menander's death the original statue was erected in the Theater of Dionysos in Athens as a commemorative monument. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

Bust of Menander Roman, 1-25 AD Bronze Inventory # 77.AB.108 More than sixty portraits of the Greek comic playwright Menander (342-291 BC) have survived. All are based on a Greek bronze original sculpted by Kephisodotos the Younger and his brother Timarchos (both active 340-290 BC). The identity of these portraits was debated until the Greek inscription (Menander) on the base of this small bust was deciphered and proven to be ancient. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.