This writer's individualized treatments of stock figures like the senex, as embodied by intelligent but greedy Smikrines in the work Aspis, differentiate his work from an earlier genre.
This writer's individualized treatments of stock figures like the senex, as embodied by intelligent but greedy Smikrines in the work Aspis, differentiate his work from an earlier genre. Demea and Nikeratos, respectively representing wealth and poverty, are seneces, or fathers, who come to blows over their children's wedding in his Samia, or the Woman of Samos. Knemon is the misanthropic title character of his best known and only completely extant work. Paired with Aristophanes by Plutarch in Parallel Lives, FTP, name this author of Dyskolos, the best known proponent of Greek New Comedy.
This writer's individualized treatments of stock figures like the senex, as embodied by intelligent but greedy Smikrines in the work Aspis, differentiate his work from an earlier genre.
{Menander}