![]() ![]() ![]() He also enjoyed the patronage of Ptolemy Soter, the son of Lagus, who invited him to his court. He was the friend, associate, and perhaps pupil of Theophrastus, and was on intimate terms with the Athenian dictator Demetrius of Phalerum. He presumably derived his taste for comic drama from his uncle Alexis. Menander was the son of well-to-do parents his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso. ![]()
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