Slave Theater in the Roman Republic : Plautus and Popular Comedy

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Slave Theater in the Roman Republic : Plautus and Popular ComedyRoman comedy evolved early in the war torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape full of displaced persons and the newly enslaved; together, the actors made comedy to address mixed class, hybrid, multilingual audiences. Surveying the whole of the Plautine corpus, where slaves are central figures, and the extant fragments of early comedy, this book is grounded in the history of slavery and integrates

and political obligation

and is designed specifically to fit the needs of today's student

Also included are On the Command of Gnaeus Pompeius

including those with post-beginners Greek

The formal and thematic versatility of his work

Her role in that area

enable students to engage with authentic Roman history and acquire a broad understanding on which to build in future study

Barbara Birley

όπως και ο Πάουλο Kοέλο

Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs Greek attempts to answer such questions from Homer's day to late antiquity

also known as Heraklides

long undeciphered