The Cairo Codex is a manuscript discovered in 1907 that contained the first significant fragments of plays by the ancient Greek playwright

Menander Menander (; grc-gre, Μένανδρος ''Menandros''; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His rec ...

, including parts of ''

Epitrepontes ''Epitrepontes'' (translated as ''The Arbitration'' or ''The Litigants'') is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander, of which only fragments of papyrus were preserved. It is one of Menander's best preserved plays, and was found in 1907, alongside ' ...

'' (Men at Arbitration), ''

Perikeiromene ''Perikeiromene'' ( el, , translated as ''The Girl with her Hair Cut Short'', is a comedy by Menander (342/41 – 292/91 BC) that is only partially preserved on papyrus. Of an estimated total of between 1030 and 1091 lines, about 450 lines (be ...

'' (She Who Was Sheared) and '' Samia'' (The Girl from Samos).

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