The plays of Menander show
a. the growing cynicism of an alienated population lost in a world over which they had no control.
b. a warm concern for people and a sympathetic understanding of human weaknesses.
c. the continued popularity of biting political satire.
d. a fascination with the unusual, the grotesque and the exotic.
e. that Greek plays could be written by non-Greek writers.
b
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