Dyscolus
Dyscolus (Graece: Δύσκολος, 'Morosus') est comoedia a poëta Graeco Menandro scripta, Athenis anno 317/316 a.C.n. (archonte Demogene) transacta in feriis Lenaeis et praemio laureata. Huius ludi medio aevo deperditi textus manuscriptus fere completus, in Aegypto loco ignoto circa 1950 repertus et a Martino Bodmer emptus, anno 1959 demum editus est.

Personae 
 Pan deus prologum pronuntiat
 Sostratus iuvenis dives, Cnemonis filiae amator.
 Chaereas, Sostrati parasitus
 Pyrrhias, Sostrati servus
 Cnemon, agricola homines fugiens ('dyscolus')
 Virgo, Cnemonis filia a Sostrato amata
 Simica anus, Cnemonis ancilla
 Gorgias, frater uterinus illius virginis, agricola pauper
 Daos, Gorgiae servus
 Sicon, coquus
 Phidippides, Sostrati pater, agricola dives
 Getas, Phidippidis servus
 Sostrati mater, non nominata
Res ruri iuxta antrum Panis et Nympharum in demo Phyle Atticae agitur. Ex una parte Cnemonis domus ubi solus habitat cum filia et vetere ancilla, ex altera Gorgiae domus ubi cum servo et matre vivit.

Synopsis 
Deus Pan filiam vicini Cnemonis diligit quia fanum Nympharum frequentat et donis ornat. Itaque pulchrum matrimonium ei offerre in animo habet etiamsi morosus pater Cnemon genus humanum fugit et omnes ad se venientes repellit. Sostratus, dives adulescens, virginem aquam e fonte ducentem vidit atque statim amore ardescit. Servum et parasitum ad patrem mittit qui eos minis et verberibus fugat. Dum ipse appropinquat in virginis fratrem uterinum Gorgian incidit qui postquam honestum matrimonium ab adulescente quaeri cognovit amicus sociusque fit. Negat tamen quicquam a patre sperandum esse qui fundum solus arat nec auxilium a quoquam petit. Tunc Sostrati mater, superstitiosa mulier, quia Panem in somnio vidit, deo sacrificatum cum servo et coquo in scaenam advenit. Comites ad Cnemonem utensilium quorundam necessariorum quaerendorum causa mittit qui eos male mulcat nec quicquam eis praebere posse respondet. Paulo post vetus ancilla Simica situlum et ligonem ob putridum funem in puteum amittit. Dum in puteum descendit Cnemon labitur et cadit. Nuntio allato Gorgias accurrit et Sostrato adiuvante Cnemonem e puteo attollit. Tum senex qui sine humana ope mortuus esset bona sua administranda Gorgiae relinquit atque in primis ei mandat ut maritum sorori eligeret. Ita Gorgias virginem amatam Sostrato spondet atque ipse Sostrati sororem a patre Phidippide in matrimonium accipit. Omnes ad convivium properant praeter Cnemonem qui solus domi manere mavult. At Sicon et Getas ad senis custodiam remissi dum ceteri laete convivium celebrant et nuper ab eo violenter repulsi ultionem excogitarunt. Senem dormientem in lecto e casa portant atque aedis fores clamorose pulsant utensilia omnis generis postulantes. Exporrectus Cnemon imbecillior est quam ut aut effugere aut repugnare possit. Nec eum molestare desierunt antequam in antrum ad convivium sese portari sineret. Ita duplum matrimonium et epulae fabulam finierunt.

Notae

Bibliographia 
 Editiones et versiones
 1959 (editio fragmentorum ante papyrum divulgatum parata) : Alfredus Koerte, Menandri quae supersunt: pars altera (ed. 2a. Lipsiae: Teubner) pp. 51-55; cf. "addenda" ad p. 293
 1958 (sed mense Martio 1959 divulgatum) : Victor Martin, Papyrus Bodmer IV. Cologny-Genève: Bibliothèque Bodmer  Recensio critica
 1960 : C. Diano, Menandro, Dyskolos, ovvero sia Il Selvatico, testo e traduzione. Patavii: Antenore  Recensio critica
 1960 : Jean Bingen, Menander, Dyskolos, critical edition. Lugduni Batavorum: Brill, 1960
 1960 : H. Lloyd-Jones, Menandri Dyscolus. Oxonii: e typogr. Clarendoniano (Scriptorum Classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis) 
 1963 : Jean-Marie Jacques, Ménandre, tome 12. Le Dyscolos. Lutetiae: Les Belles Lettres, 1963 (Collection des universités de France)  Recensio critica Altera recensio critica
 
 1966 : Ernst R. Lehmann-Leander, Wolfgang Tilgner, interprr., "Menander: Der alte Griesgram" in Eberhard Rechenberg, ed., Griechische Komödien: Aristophanes, Menander (Lipsiae: Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung) 
 1967 : Walter Hofmann et al., interprr., Antike Komödien. Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terenz. Berolini: Aufbau 
 1967 (versio imperfecta) : Guy Davenport, interpr., "Menander: Dyskolos 1-49, 233-426" in Arion vol. 6 no. 2 (1967) pp. 169-178 
 1972 : F. H. Sandbach, ed., Menandri reliquiae selectae. Oxonii: e typogr. Clarendoniano (Scriptorum Classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis). Ed. correctior, 1976. 2a ed., 1990 
 1974 (versio imperfecta) : Klaus Eder, ed., Antike Komödie. Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terenz. Monaci: Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag 
 1979 : W. G. Arnott, ed. et interpr., Menander. Vol. 1. Cantabrigiae Massachusettensium: Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library) 
 1987 : Norma Miller, interpr., Menander: Plays and fragments. Londinii: Penguin 
 1995 : S. Ireland, ed., Menander: The Bad-Tempered Man. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1995
 2001 : Maurice Balme, interpr., Menander: The plays and fragments. Oxonii: Oxford University Press. 
 2007 : Qi Peng, interpr., The Grouchy Guy [Dyskolos]. White Rook. 

 Nuntii de papyro reperto, de primis editionibus
 Manchester Guardian (14 Septembris 1957)
 Jean-Marie Jacques, "La résurrection du Dyscolos de Ménandre: ses conséquences" in Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé (1959) pp. 200-215
 Jean-Marie Jacques, "Deux éditions du Dyscolos de Ménandre" in Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé (1960) pp. 415-421
 Victor Martin in Gnomon vol. 29 (1957) p. 560 ff. et "Le papyrus du Dyscolos comme livre", Scriptorium, 1960ː 3-15
 Jean Martin, "Sur l'état primitif du codex Bodmer de Ménandre", Scriptorium, 1966ː 6-10
 E. G. Turner, "Emendations to Menander's Dyscolos" in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (1959) p. 62 ff.

 Eruditio
 W. Geoffrey Arnott, "A Study in Relationships: Alexis' "Lebes," Menander's "Dyskolos," Plautus' "Aulularia"" in Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica n.s. vol. 33 (1989) pp. 27-38 JSTOR
 P. G. McC. Brown, "The Construction of Menander's Dyskolos, Acts I-IV" in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik vol. 94 (1992) pp. 8-20 JSTOR
 Cheryl Anne Cox, "Is Sostratus' Family Urban in Menander's "Dyskolos"?" in Classical Journal vol. 97 (2002) pp. 351-358 JSTOR
 Elizabeth Craik, "Double-entendre in Menander's "Dyskolos"" in Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica vol. 69, No. 3 (2001) pp. 47-51 JSTOR
 Sander Goldberg, The making of Menander's comedy (Londinii: Athlone Press, 1980) pp. 72-91 
 
 K. Haegemans, "Character Drawing in Menander's "Dyskolos": Misanthropy and Philanthropy" in Mnemosyne vol. 54 (2001) pp. 675-696 JSTOR
 Geneviève Hoffmann, "L'espace théâtral et social du Dyscolos de Ménandre", Mètis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens, 1986ː 269-290
 Ippokratis Kantzios, "Old Pan and New Pan in Menander's Dyskolos" in Classical Journal vol. 106 (2010) pp. 23-42 JSTOR
 Susan Lape, "Gender in Menander's comedy" in A. Petrides, S. Papaioannou, edd., New perspectives on postclassical comedy (Novo Castro, 2010) pp. 51-78
 Susan Lape, Reproducing Athens: Menander's comedy, democratic culture, and the Hellenistic city. Princetoniae: Princeton University Press, 2004. 
 Susan Lape, "The Poetics of the "Kōmos"-Chorus in Menander's Comedy" in American Journal of Philology vol. 127 (2006) pp. 89-109 JSTOR
 Michel Menu,	"Le Dyscolos de Ménandre : éléments d'analyse", Littératures, 1989ː 7-19
 J. H. Quincey et al., Notes on the Dyskolos of Menander. 1959
 Vincent J. Rosivach, "Class Matters in the "Dyskolos" of Menander" in Classical Quarterly vol. 51 (2001) pp. 127-134 JSTOR
 Victor Steffen, Irena Zawadzka, Silvester Dworacki,	Studia Menandrea ad Dyscolum pertinentia, Varsoviae, 1965
 F. Stoessl, Menander: Dyskolos. Kommentar. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1965
 Ariana Traill, "Knocking on Knemon's Door: Stagecraft and Symbolism in the "Dyskolos"" in Transactions of the American Philological Association vol. 131 (2001) pp. 87-108 JSTOR
 Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos, "Proverbs in Menander's "Dyskolos": The Rhetoric of Popular Wisdom" in Mnemosyne 4a ser. vol. 48 (1995) pp. 169-177 JSTOR
 Friedrich Zucker, ed., Menanders Dyskolos als Zeugnis seiner Epoche. Berolini: Akademie-Verlag, 1965

 De cena et convivio
 Joan Burton, "Women's Commensality in the Ancient Greek World" in Greece & Rome vol. 45 (1998) pp. 143-165 JSTOR
 Sean Corner, "Did Respectable Women Attend Symposia?" in Greece & Rome vol. 59 (2012) pp. 34-45

 De anno et contextu historico
 William M. Owens, "The Political Topicality of Menander's Dyskolos" in American Journal of Philology vol. 132 (2011) pp. 349-378
 
 David Wiles, "Menander's 'Dyskolos' and Demetrios of Phaleron's Dilemma: A Study of the Play in Its Historical Context - The Trial of Phokion, the Ideals of a Moderate Oligarch, and the Rancour of the Disfranchized" in Greece & Rome vol. 31 (1984) pp. 170-180 JSTOR

Nexus externi 
 Textus apud Vicifontem Graecam 
 Dyscolus (fasciculus .doc) 
 Dyscolus a Vincentio J. Rosivach conversus 
 Ménandreː Le grincheux, introductio cum Francogallica interpretatione

Comoediae Graecae antiquae
Graeciae scripta
Scripta 316 a.C.n.
Pan
Menander