▲ 183 ▼ TIL for nearly a thousand years, the ancient world’s most popular and admired comedian was Menander of Athens. Ironically, his work was lost to history until 1952, when a single play was rediscovered (en.wikipedia.org) submitted 1 year ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/til@lemmy.ca 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago I'm sure it's hilarious in the original ancient Greek. permalink fedilink source parent