Around what year was the Greek play that inspired Jean Anouilh's play of the same name written?
Antigone (Anouilh play) Jean Anouilh's play Antigone is a tragedy inspired by Greek mythology and the play of the same name by Sophocles. In English, it is often distinguished from its antecedent by being pronounced similarly to its original French form [ɑ̃tiɡɔn], approximately "on-tee-GONE".
Dyskolos Dyskolos (Greek: , ] , translated as "The Grouch", "The Misanthrope", "The Curmudgeon", "The Bad-tempered Man" or "Old Cantankerous") is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander, the only one of his plays, and of the whole "New Comedy", that has survived in almost complete form. It was first presented at the Lenaian festival in 317–16 BC, where it won Menander the first-place prize. It was long known only through fragmentary quotations; but a papyrus manuscript of the nearly complete "Dyskolos, "dating to the 3rd century, was recovered in Egypt in 1952 and forms part of the Bodmer Papyri.