Menander : (342-292 BC), Athenian dramatist considered the supreme poet of Greek New Comedy, the last flowering of Athenian stage comedy.
... Aśoka's time eye to eye with modern historians? Sircar 1 speaks of "Buddhist traditions of north-western India as recorded in the Milinda-panha" , according to which the Indo-Greek king "Menander flourished 500 years after the PariNirvāna, i.e. in the sixth century after Buddha's death". Then Sircar 2 writes: "It is interesting to note in this connection that Kielhorn suggested an epoch... out satisfactorily." Such an epoch would agree with the third out of the four different traditions Hiuen-Tsang reports about the Parinirvāna, and that third tradition, says Sircar, 3 would place Menander "between the middle of the second and the middle of the first century B.C." - in consonance with the present-day unanimous dating of "Menander's reign... after [the Bactrian Greek king] Demetrius's ...
... and cultural superiority to the barbarian much nearer to the Indian mind than a typical modern European. Not only could a Pythagoras or a philosopher of the Neo-platonist school, an Alexander or a Menander understand with a more ready sympathy the root ideas of Asiatic culture, but an average man of ability, a Megasthenes for instance, could be trusted to see and understand, though not inwardly and ...
... native and characteristic and therefore its greatest and completest work either in philosophy or in Science. The age of developed intellectualism in Greece killed poetry; it ended in the comedy of Menander, the intellectual artificialities of Alexandrianism, the last flush of beauty in the aesthetic pseudo-naturalism of the Sicilian pastoral poetry; philosophy occupied the field. In the more rich and ...
... 591-2, 597, 603, 605 Meghavanna (see also Sirimeghavanna), 33, 34 Mehendale, M. A., 547, 553, 564, 565, 568-9 Meherauli Iron Pillar of 'Chandra', i, 215, 398, 523-7, 528, 532-3, 596 Menander, 366 Meou-lun, 456 Merutunga: Therāvali, 475, 502 Meru/'Meros', 57, 58, 81 Methora (Mathura), 94, 95, 396 Meyer, E., 251, 281, 282 Meyer, J., 77 Michelson, 315 Mihirakula ...
... embassy which Mahānāman, king of Ceylon, sent to the emperor of China in 428 A.D., does not speak in favour of his revised chronology." Raychaudhuri 3 goes on to note that the traditional date of Menander, the Indo-Greek king, which is 500 years after Buddha, "works out more satisfactorily" with a Parinirvāna Era of 543 B.C. than with that of 483 or even with the date 486 of "a Cantonese tradition" ...
... their spirit and his hopes rose to their highest pitch. By this time he was already feared by his men for this relentless severity in punishing any dereliction of duty. For example he put to death Menander, one of the Companions, because he had been placed in command of a garrison and had refused to remain there, and he shot down with his own hand one of the barbarians named Orsodates who had rebelled ...
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