Cairo Codex

{{About|the Cairo Codex of Menander|the Cairo Codex of the Prophets|Codex Cairensis}}

The Cairo Codex is a manuscript discovered in 1907 that contained the first significant fragments of plays by the ancient Greek playwright Menander. It included large parts of Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), Perikeiromene (The Girl with her Hair Cut Short) and Samia (The Girl from Samos), as well as some hundred lines of Heros (The Hero), and sixty-four lines of an otherwise unknown play.{{cite book |title=The Plays and Fragments |date=8 May 2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-954073-0 |page=xxxi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8AnZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR31}}{{cite book |last1=Easterling |first1=P. E. |author1-link=P. E. Easterling |last2=Knox |first2=Bernard M. W. |author2-link=Bernard Knox |title=The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 2, Greek Drama |date=1989 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-35982-5 |page=163 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vLxohQGubTcC&pg=PA163}}{{cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=William |title=1997.10.07, Menander, Vol. 2. Pp. x + 501. Loeb Classical Library 459. – Bryn Mawr Classical Review |url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1997/1997.10.07/ |journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review}}