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Aris and Phillips Classical Texts: Terence: the Eunuch by A. J. Brothers (2000, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherLiverpool University Press

ISBN-100856685127

ISBN-139780856685125

eBay Product ID (ePID)140611

Product Key Features

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageLatin

Publication NameTerence: the Eunuch

SubjectAncient / Rome, European / General, Ancient & Classical

Publication Year2000

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaDrama, Literary Collections, History

AuthorA. J. Brothers

SeriesAris and Phillips Classical Texts

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Table Of ContentPreface Introduction: I. Greek New Comedy; II. Comedy at Rome; III. The Life and Works of Terence IV. Terence and his Critics; V. The Eunuch and its Relationship to Menander VI. The Eunuch as a Roman Comedy; VII. The Text Bibliography List of Metres Parallel Latin text and English translation Commentary Index.

SynopsisWhen first performed, The Eunuch was a great success. Today, with its larger-than-life characters (particularly the boastful soldier Thraso and the toady Gnatho), its farcical and exaggerated humour and its vigorous action, it strikes the modern reader as the funniest and most Plautine of Terence's six comedies., When first performed, The Eunuch was a great success. Today, with its larger-than-life characters (particularly the boastful soldier Thraso and the toady Gnatho), its farcical and exaggerated humour and its vigorous action, it strikes the modern reader as the funniest and most Plautine of Terence's six comedies. It is also a play of effective and entertaining contrasts, particularly that between the two brothers Phaedria and Chaerea. Their very different attitudes to love and romance provide one of the play's chief points of interest, while Thais presents yet another picture of love, that of the professional courtesan. The fact that Thais, Thraso and the slave Parmeno are not quite the stereotypes we might expect to find in this type of play adds yet more to an amusing and thought provoking comedy.