Terence’s Eunuchus is based on Menander’s Eunuchus.

In Terence’s Eunuchus, Thais is much more conscious of the connection between verbal constructs and mundane reality than is Phaedria.

In Terence’s Eunuchus, Phaedria buys a high-priced eunuch as a gift for Thais.

In Menander’s Twice a Swindler, a well-bred young man’s love for a courtesan causes him to lose self-control and hurt his friends.

The historian Diodorus of Sicily, writing about 50 B.G.C., used the evil-communication phrase that Paul also used in 1 Corinthians 15:33.

Philo of Alexandria deplored the corrupting effects of evil communication with an implicit reference to Menander’s evil-communication phrase.

Favorinus of Arles offered a sensational persona in the second-century, Greco-Roman public-speaking market.

In first-century Roman Empire, the use of slaves in the lucrative business of teaching created public concern.

The scholarly literature hasn’t sufficiently appreciated how Menander and the larger textual and historical context relates to 1 Cor. 15:33.

όμιλίαι in 1 Cor. 15:33 should be understand in the context of Menander and highly cultured, verbal seduction.