Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2011
* I would like to thank Ariana Traill for reading an earlier draft of this article and making many useful comments, John Friend for help with the bibliography on the ephebeia, and the anonymous reader. The following abbreviations are employed:
Capps = E. Capps, ‘Chronological studies in the Greek tragic and comic poets’, AJPh 21 (1900), 38–61, at 60–1.
De Marcellus = H. De Marcellus, ‘IG XIV 1184 and the ephebic service of Menander’, ZPE 110 (1996), 69–76.
PCG 6.2 = R. Kassel and C. Austin, Poetae comici graeci, vol. 6.2: Menander: testimonia et fragmenta apud scriptores servata (Berlin and New York, 1998).
Schröder = S. Schröder, ‘Die Lebensdaten Menanders (mit einem Anhang über die Aufführungszeit seines ΕΑΥΤΟΝ ΤΙΜΩΡΟΥΜΕΝΟΣ)', ZPE 113 (1996), 35–48.
Traill = A. Traill, ‘Menander's Thaïs and the Roman poets’, Phoenix 55 (2001), 284–303.
Wilhelm = A. Wilhelm, ‘Parische Marmor-chronik’, MDAI(A) 22 (1897), 200.