Geōrgos

Geōrgos (‘farmer’), Greek comedy by Menander, a fragment of which has been recovered from a papyrus. The plot revolves around two neighbours, one a poor widow, Myrrhinē, with a son and a daughter, the other a rich man with a son, by a previous marriage, and a daughter. The rich man's son wishes to marry Myrrhine's daughter, who is already pregnant by him, but his father is arranging to marry him to his half-sister. The farmer of the title, Kleainētos, apparently also wishes to marry the widow's daughter. Presumably in the end it is the rich neighbour's son who succeeds in doing so.