Welcome to the Monuments Illustrating New Comedy Repository

NEW COMEDY was the latest creation of the Ancient Greek Theatre. As evolved by Menander (341 – 291 BC) and his contemporaries and successors, it was for a period for some 800 years highly popular with audiences wherever Greek plays were produced, and had a very large following among educated readers. It also inspired artists and craftsmen in many media to fix the passing theatrical experience for their patrons: in painting, metalwork, terracotta, sculpture, gems, with representations of scenes, of actors in costume and their masks. Monuments Illustrating New Comedy is a catalogue of objects of this kind. It began with lists compiled by T.B.L Webster over 40 years ago, and first published by the Institute of Classical Studies in 1961.