His rival in dramatic art (and supposedly in the affections of Glycera) was Philemon, who appears to have been more popular. Menander, however, believed himself to be the better dramatist, and, according to Aulus Gellius,Gellius: Noctes Attica, 17.4 used to ask Philemon: "Don't you feel ashamed whenever you gain a victory over me?" According to Caecilius of Calacte (Porphyry in Eusebius, Praeparatio evangelicaEusebius: Praeparatio Evangelica, Book 10, Chapter 3) Menander was accused of plagiarism, as his The Superstitious Man was taken from The Augur of Antiphanes, but reworkings and variations on a theme of this sort were commonplace and so the charge is a complicated one.
His rival in dramatic art (and supposedly in the affections of Glycera) was Philemon, wh.o appears to have been more popular. Menander, however, believed himself to be the better dramatist, and according to Aulus Gellius,Gellius: Noctes Attica, 17.4 used to ask Philemon "Don't you feel ashamed whenever you gain a victory over me?" According to Caecilius of Calacte (Porphyry in Eusebius, Praeparatio evangelicaEusebius: Praeparatio Evangelica, Book 10, Chapter 3) Menander was accused of plagiarism, as his The Superstitious Man was taken from The Augur of Antiphanes, but reworkings and variations on a theme of this sort were commonplace and so the charge is a complicated one