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Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies, first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 B.C., imaginatively reformulated Latin plays written by Greek playwrights, especially Menander. Volume I contains a substantial introduction and three plays: The Woman of Andros, a romantic comedy; The Self-Tormentor, which looks at contrasting father-son relationships; and The Eunuch, whose characters include the most sympathetically drawn courtesan in Roman comedy. The other three plays are in Volume II: Phormio, a comedy of intrigue with an engaging trickster; The Mother-in-Law, unique among Terence's plays in that the female characters are the admirable ones; and The Brothers, which explores contrasting approaches to parental education of sons. The Romans highly praised Terence, whose speech can charm, whose every word delights, in Cicero's words.
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Terence I., Publius Terentius Afer
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- 1965
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- Title
- Terence I.
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Publius Terentius Afer
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Released
- 1965
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 364
- ISBN10
- 0674990250
- ISBN13
- 9780674990258
- Series
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- Description
- Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies, first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 B.C., imaginatively reformulated Latin plays written by Greek playwrights, especially Menander. Volume I contains a substantial introduction and three plays: The Woman of Andros, a romantic comedy; The Self-Tormentor, which looks at contrasting father-son relationships; and The Eunuch, whose characters include the most sympathetically drawn courtesan in Roman comedy. The other three plays are in Volume II: Phormio, a comedy of intrigue with an engaging trickster; The Mother-in-Law, unique among Terence's plays in that the female characters are the admirable ones; and The Brothers, which explores contrasting approaches to parental education of sons. The Romans highly praised Terence, whose speech can charm, whose every word delights, in Cicero's words.