Dyskolos

Menander (at about the age of 25) produced this play in Athens in the year 317/316 B.C. (about six years after the death of Alexander the Great and of Aristotle).

CHARACTER	Description
PAN	god of rustic countryside, and garden fertility; genial happy; sometimes the Greek equivalent of a scarecrow.
KNAIMON	the Misanthrope, divorced, step-father of Gorgias, and of a daughter
GORGIAS	ex-step-son of KNAIMON, now his next door neighbor.
SOSTRATOS	a wealthy young man, on a hunting trip.
KALLIPIDES	the father of Sostratos
CHAEREAS	a Parasite
SIKON	a cook
SLAVES	Pyrrhias, Daos, Getas
SIMIKE	an old female servant
CHOROS	revellers, worshippers of the god Pan

SCENE: the Athenian countryside, at the foot of Mt. Parnes in eastern Attica. There is a cave of Pan nearby. The doors of the skene represent the two houses of Cnaemon and Gorgias.

Act	Description of Structure of the Act	Pages
PROLOGOS	PAN is annoyed at Cnaemon because of his nasty anti-social character and behavior. His daughter, however, is a saint, and Pan has made the rich Cnaemon fall in love with her.	p. 59-60 Penguin
ACT I	(A) Sostratos, Chaereas, Pyrrhias S is in `love' with an anonymous girl. C gives advice on what to do when a friend's in love. P tells of trouble with old man when he tries to interview him about the girl (B) Cnaemon, Sostratos, Myrrhine, Daos (Gorgias' slave)	p. 60-64 p. 64-68
CHORAL INTERLUDE I	[No text for any of the choral interludes]
ACT II	(A) Gorgias and Daos, Sostratos & Pyrrhias (B) Sicon, Getas	p. 69-74 p. 75-76
CHORAL INTERLUDE	[No text]
ACT III	(A) Cnaemon, Sostratos' mother & Sister, Getas (B) Sicon and Getas, Cnaemon, Sostratos (C) Simice, Cnaemon, Getas	pp.77-86
CHORAL INTERLUDE	[No text]
ACT IV	(A) Sicon, Simice, Gorgias (B) Sostratos, Gorgias, Cnaemon; Myrrhina, Wife, Callipides	pp.87-95
CHORAL INTERLUDE	[No text]
ACT V	(A) Callipides, Sostratos, Gorgias (Mother and Myrrhine) (B) Simice, Getas, Sicon, Cnaemon	96-104