Andria
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As the first play of the Terentian corpus, Andria has always attracted a special level of attention. It was the first Roman comedy produced after antiquity (at Florence in 1476) and the first translated into English, and it has inspired writers from Jonson and Dryden to Thornton Wilder. It provides an excellent introduction to Terence 's particular style of comedy, noteworthy for its ambivalence in representing the perspectives of woman and slaves and its experiments with a secondary plot show more line. The commentary is designed both to help students with the basic linguistic and technical problems confronting inexperienced readers of Roman comedy and to open discussion of essential interpretive questions involving the play and its relation to the wider comic corpus, as well as the utility of comedy for furthering our understanding of the Roman world and its values. show lessTags
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Edition: Second Edition Revised // Descr: xxvii, 128 p. 17.5 cm. // Series: Clarendon Press Series Call No. { 872 T27 7 } With Notes and Introduction by C.E. Freeman and Rev. A. Sloman. // //
Edition: Second Edition // Descr: lxxxi, 186 p. 19 cm. // Series: Allyn and Bacon's College Latin Series Call No. { 872 T27 5 c. #2. } Series under the General Editorship of Charles E. Bennett and John C. Rolfe With Introduction and Notes by H.R. Fairclough // //
Edition: // Descr: lxxxi, 186 p. 19 cm. // Series: Allyn and Bacon's College Latin Series Call No. { 872 T27 5 c. #3. } Series under General Editorship of Charles E. Bennett and John C. Rolfe With Introduction and Notes by H.R. Fairclough. // //
Edition: Second Edition // Descr: lxxxi, 186 p. 19 cm. // Series: Allyn and Bacon's College Latin Series Call No. { 872 T27 5 c. #1. } Series under General Editorship of Charles E. Bennett and John C. Rolfe With Introduction and Notes by H.R. Fairclough. // //
Edition: // Descr: // Series: Call No. { 872 T27 4 } Edited by Robert Kauer. // //
Edition: // Descr: // Series: Call No. { 872 T27.09 1 } Edited by Dr. Robert Kauer. // //
Edition: // Descr: xxvii, 128 p. 17.5 cm. // Series: Clarendon Press Series Call No. { 872 T27 6 } With Notes and Introductions by C.E. Freeman and Rev. A. Sloman. // //
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Terence was born in Carthage. As a boy, he was the slave of Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, who educated him and set him free. He was an intimate friend of the younger Scipio and of the elegant poet Laelius. They were the gilded youth of Rome, and Terence's plays were undoubtedly written for this inner circle, not for the vulgar crowd. They show more were adapted from Menander and other Greek writers of the New Comedy and, in the main, were written seriously on a high literary plane with careful handling of plot and character. The six comedies are all extant. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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