Menander Quotes
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Topics
Ancient Greece
Honesty
Interpretation
Oratory
Robocalls
Simplicity, Simplification
Speeches, Speechmaking
Truth, Truthfulness
Writing
Candor
Call A Spade A Spade
Clarity
Literalism
Plain Speaking
Precision, Exactitude
Realism
Straightforwardness
Frankness
Metaphor
Directness
Plain Language
Plain Meaning
Plain Talk
blunt truth
Citations
Menander, 343? BC—291? BC, Roman Writer, Fragment 545
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Menander (/məˈnændər/; Greek: Μένανδρος Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown but may well have been similarly spectacular.