Comedy and the Rise of Rome

✍ Scribed by Matthew Leigh

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is an original study of the plays of the two great Roman comic playwrights Plautus and Terence in the context of political and economic change in Rome in the third and second centuries BC. In contrast to the dominant trend of viewing the plays by reference to their largely lost Greek originals, the book adopts a historicist approach that concentrates on their effect on a contemporary audience.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 11
1. Introduction......Page 14
2. Plautus and Hannibal......Page 37
3. The Captivi and the Paradoxes of Postliminium......Page 70
4. City, Land, and Sea: New Comedy and the Discourse of Economies......Page 111
5. Fatherhood and the Habit of Command: L. Aemilius Paullus and the Adelphoe......Page 171
Bibliography......Page 205
A......Page 216
C......Page 219
E......Page 221
H......Page 222
L......Page 223
M......Page 227
P......Page 229
S......Page 239
T......Page 240
V......Page 242
Z......Page 243
A......Page 244
B......Page 245
D......Page 246
F......Page 247
I......Page 248
M......Page 249
P......Page 250
S......Page 252
T......Page 253
Z......Page 254