Amy Richlin, Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles, is author of The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor (revised edition, 1992), editor of Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome (1992), and coeditor, with Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, of Feminist Theory and the Classics (1993).
11 Ebooks by Plautus
Plautus: Rome and the Mysterious Orient
Still funny after two thousand years, the Roman playwright Plautus wrote around 200 B.C.E., a period when Rome was fighting neighbors on all fronts, including North Africa and the Near East. These …
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Plautus: Menaechmi; Or, The Twin-Brothers
Considered to be Plautus’s greatest play, ‘Menaechmi; Or, The Twin-Brothers’ is the story of two twin brothers, Menaechmus and Sosicles, who are separated at age seven when their father takes …
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Plautus: The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
The ancient Roman writer Plautus is one of the most important playwrights in Western Civilization. ‘The Pot of Gold and Other Plays’ captures his genius with a collection of famous plays performed in …
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Plautus: Mostellaria or, The Haunted House
Titus Maccius Plautus is better known in English as Plautus, a prolific Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. As can be expected little is known of his early life. Accounts are reconciled that he …
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Plautus: Captavi
Titus Maccius Plautus is better known in English as Plautus, a prolific Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. As can be expected little is known of his early life. Accounts are reconciled that he …
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Plautus: Pot of Gold and Other Plays
One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied …
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Plautus: Rope and Other Plays
Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected …
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Aristophanes & Menander: Classical Comedy
From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: …
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Plautus: Selected Plays
This collection of plays captures the comedic genius of Plautus, one of the most important playwrights from classical Roman antiquity. Plautus adapted most of his plays from earlier Greek stories, …
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Plautus: Four Comedies
Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Moliere’s The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself …
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