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Terentius Apher, Publius (Terence)
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  • Terence and the Language of Roman Comedyby Evangelos Karakasis; R. L. Hunter; R. G. Osborne; M. D. Reeve; P. D. Garnsey; M. Millett; D. N. Sedley; G. C. Horrocks

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 35.00

    This book examines Terence's use of language and provides the first linguistic and stylistic commentary on the extant fragments of the fabula palliata, togata and atellana. Terence, except in the case of his Eunuchus, is shown to distance himself in style and language from the practice of other comic authors. more...

  • Terence, The Comediesby Peter Brown

    Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 125.00

    Terence (?184-159 BC) was the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome and one of the founding fathers of European comic drama. This new translation with introduction and explanatory notes aims to convey the liveliness of the plays as pieces written for the theatre. - ;Terence (?184-159 BC) was the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome and one of the founding fathers of European comic drama. His plays have been imitated by authors as diverse as the nun Hrothswitha in the tenth century and P. G. Wodehouse in the twentieth. They deal with the love-life of adolescent boys and with associated tensions in their relations with their fathers. They show love triumphing over obstacles of various kinds, and they also portray... more...

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