Editing Menander (section)

==20th-century discoveries==
[[File:P.Oxy. II 211.jpg|thumb|A papyrus fragment of the ''Perikeiromene'', ll. 976–1008 ([[Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 211|P. Oxy. 211]] II 211, 1st or 2nd century AD)]]
This situation changed abruptly in 1907, with the discovery of the [[Cairo Codex]], which contained large parts of the ''[[Samia (play)|Samia]]'', the ''[[Perikeiromene]]'', and the ''[[Epitrepontes]]''; a section of the ''Heros''; and another fragment from an unidentified play. A fragment of 115 lines of the ''Sikyonioi'' had been found in the [[papier mache]] of a mummy case in 1906.

In 1959, the [[Bodmer papyrus]] was published containing ''[[Dyskolos]]'', more of the ''Samia'', and half of the ''[[Aspis (Menander)|Aspis]]''. In the late 1960s, more of the ''Sikyonioi'' was found as filling for two more mummy cases; this proved to be drawn from the same manuscript as the discovery in 1906, which had clearly been thoroughly recycled.<ref>Menander: ''Plays and Fragments'', tr. [[Norma Miller (classicist)|Norma Miller]]. Penguin 1987, p.15</ref>

Other papyrus fragments continue to be discovered and published.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sommerstein |first1=Alan |title= From Mount Sinai to Michigan: the rediscovery of Menander's Epitrepontes (part 4) |url=https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ancientdrama/2012/12/06/from-mount-sinai-to-michigan-the-rediscovery-of-menanders-epitrepontes-part-4/|website=University of Nottingham|date=6 December 2012 }}</ref>
[[Image:Портрет Менандра А 850.jpg|thumb|Menander. Roman copy, after original by Kephisodotos the Younger and Timarchos, sons of Praxiteles, 4th century B.C. Marble. [[The Hermitage Museum]], St. Petersburg, Russia]]
In 2003, a [[palimpsest]] manuscript, in Syriac writing of the 9th century, was found where the reused parchment comes from a very expensive 4th-century Greek manuscript of works by Menander. The surviving leaves contain parts of the ''Dyskolos'' and 200 lines of another piece by Menander, so far unpublished, titled ''Titthe''.<ref name="harlfinger">[http://www.forum-classicum.de/archiv104.htm#harlfinger Dieter Harlfinger, ''Warten auf Menander im Vatikan. 400 griechische Komödienverse in einer syrischen Palimpsest-Handschrift entdeckt'', in: Forum Classicum, 2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508043006/http://www.forum-classicum.de/archiv104.htm#harlfinger |date=8 May 2009 }}.  See [http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/?p=1515 here] for an English translation.</ref><ref>F. D’Aiuto: ''Graeca in codici orientali della Biblioteca Vaticana (con i resti di un manoscritto tardoantico delle commedie di Menandro)'', in: ''Tra Oriente e Occidente. Scritture e libri greci fra le regioni orientali di Bisanzio e l’Italia'', a cura di Lidia Perria, Rom 2003 (= Testi e studi bizantino-neoellenici XIV), S. 227–296 (esp. 266–283 and plates 13–14)</ref><ref>Miles, Sarah (2014) 'Menander. C. Austin (ed.) Menander. Eleven Plays. (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume 37.) Pp. xviii + 84. Cambridge : The Cambridge Philological
Society, 2013. Paper, Classical review., 64 (02). pp. 409–411.</ref>