The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence |
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| Author:
| Hanses, Mathias |
| ISBN: | 978-0-472-13225-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2020 |
| Publisher: | University of Michigan Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $85.00 |
Book Description:
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Documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial periods of Rome. Mathias Hanses traces the plays' reception, and shines a bright light on the relationships between comic texts and the works of contemporary and later Latin writers.
Documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial periods of Rome. Mathias Hanses traces the plays' reception, and shines a bright light on the relationships between comic texts and the works of contemporary and later Latin writers.