In attending to the complex relation between bilingualism and translation, this article analyzes passages from three bilingual texts masquerading as translations: Plautus' Poenulus, Lorenzo Da Ponte's ...

The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 125, No. 2 (Summer, 2004), pp. 209-243 (35 pages) This article argues that a close reading of friendship practices in the plays of Plautus, in light of the ...

He does not play the facts of life for sniggers; he displays them, like some pipsqueak Plautus, for grand though gross guffaws. The travel agent reappears with irreverent celerity.

Roman dramas lifted stories and characters directly from Greek dramatists like Menander. In which Mike delves into the theater of ancient Rome. It wasn't all gladiators and Christian-killing, you ...

The plays of Plautus have long been recognizedas a unique mine of information about the spoken Latin of the 3rd and2nd centuries BC. But detailed and up-to-date linguistic treatments ofthe Plautine ...

Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) has been described by classicist and novelist Erich Segal as “the least admired and most imitated” of the ancient Greek and Roman dramatists.

Plautus and Terence, who would go on to set the tone for centuries of playwrights (and school curricula), came from the margins of Roman society, writing primarily for plebeians and upsetting the ...

The shrewish wife, the clever slave, the besotted, penniless young man, the prostitute, the social parasite – these are some of the most well-known characters from the comic plays of Plautus, a Roman ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honors College continues its annual observance of Classical Week this month, featuring a theatrical performance of Plautus’ “The Braggart ...