Plautus : in five volumes

Author(s)

• Plautus, Titus Maccius
• Nixon, Paul

Bibliographic Information

Plautus : in five volumes

with an English translation by Paul Nixon

（The Loeb classical library, 60-61, 163, 260, 328）

Harvard University Press , W. Heinemann, 1916-1938

• 1 : us
• 1 : uk
• 2 : us
• 2 : uk
• 3 : us
• 3 : uk
• 4 : us
• 4 : uk
• 5 : us
• 5 : uk

Note

Latin text and parallel English translation on opposite pages

"In five volumes" not appeared in 1992 printing (v. 1)

[Vol.] 1 reprinted in 1992 by Harvard University Press only

Bibliography: 1, p. xvii-xix

Bibliographical note added in 1979 (v. 3) and 1984 (v. 5)

Includes index

Contents of Works

• 1. Amphitryon
• The comedy of asses
• The pot of gold
• The two Bacchises
• The captives
• 2. Casina
• The casket comedy
• Curculio
• Epidicus
• The two Menaechmuses
• 3. The merchant
• The braggart warrior
• The haunted house
• The Persian
• 4. The little Carthaginian
• Pseudolus
• The rope
• 5. Stichus
• Three bob day
• Truculentus
• The tale of a travelling bag
• Fragments

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1 : us ISBN 9780674990678

Description

Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300-250 BCE transferred to the Roman stage of about 225-185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own culture was not yet developed and whose manners were more severe. To make his plays live for his audience, Plautus included many Roman details, especially concerning slavery, military affairs, and law, with some invention of his own, notably in management of metres. The resulting mixture is lively, genial and humorous, with good dialogue and vivid style. There are plays of intrigue ("Two Bacchises, The Haunted House, Pseudolus"); of intrigue with a recognition theme ("The Captives, The Carthaginian, Curculio"); plays which develop character ("The Pot of Gold, Miles Gloriosus"); others which turn on mistaken identity (accidental as in the "Menaechmi"; caused on purpose as in" Amphitryon"); plays of domestic life ("The Merchant, Casina, " both unpleasant; "Trinummus, Stichus, " both pleasant).The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plautus is in five volumes.

Volume

2 : us ISBN 9780674990685

Description

Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300-250 BCE transferred to the Roman stage of about 225-185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own culture was not yet developed and whose manners were more severe. To make his plays live for his audience, Plautus included many Roman details, especially concerning slavery, military affairs, and law, with some invention of his own, notably in management of metres. The resulting mixture is lively, genial and humorous, with good dialogue and vivid style. There are plays of intrigue ("Two Bacchises, The Haunted House, Pseudolus"); of intrigue with a recognition theme ("The Captives, The Carthaginian, Curculio"); plays which develop character ("The Pot of Gold, Miles Gloriosus"); others which turn on mistaken identity (accidental as in the "Menaechmi"; caused on purpose as in" Amphitryon"); plays of domestic life ("The Merchant, Casina, " both unpleasant; "Trinummus, Stichus, " both pleasant).The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plautus is in five volumes.

Volume

3 : us ISBN 9780674991811

Description

Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300-250 BCE transferred to the Roman stage of about 225-185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own culture was not yet developed and whose manners were more severe. To make his plays live for his audience, Plautus included many Roman details, especially concerning slavery, military affairs, and law, with some invention of his own, notably in management of metres. The resulting mixture is lively, genial and humorous, with good dialogue and vivid style. There are plays of intrigue ("Two Bacchises, The Haunted House, Pseudolus"); of intrigue with a recognition theme ("The Captives, The Carthaginian, Curculio"); plays which develop character ("The Pot of Gold, Miles Gloriosus"); others which turn on mistaken identity (accidental as in the "Menaechmi"; caused on purpose as in" Amphitryon"); plays of domestic life ("The Merchant, Casina, " both unpleasant; "Trinummus, Stichus, " both pleasant).The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plautus is in five volumes.

Volume

4 : us ISBN 9780674992863

Description

Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300-250 BCE transferred to the Roman stage of about 225-185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own culture was not yet developed and whose manners were more severe. To make his plays live for his audience, Plautus included many Roman details, especially concerning slavery, military affairs, and law, with some invention of his own, notably in management of metres. The resulting mixture is lively, genial and humorous, with good dialogue and vivid style. There are plays of intrigue ("Two Bacchises, The Haunted House, Pseudolus"); of intrigue with a recognition theme ("The Captives, The Carthaginian, Curculio"); plays which develop character ("The Pot of Gold, Miles Gloriosus"); others which turn on mistaken identity (accidental as in the "Menaechmi"; caused on purpose as in" Amphitryon"); plays of domestic life ("The Merchant, Casina, " both unpleasant; "Trinummus, Stichus, " both pleasant).The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plautus is in five volumes.

Volume

5 : us ISBN 9780674993624

Description

The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205-184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Moliere to modern times. Twenty-one of his plays are extant.

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Details

• NCID: BA00836857
• ISBN:
  • 0674990676
  • 0434990604
  • 0674990684
  • 0434990612
  • 0674991818
  • 0434991635
  • 0674992865
  • 0434992607
  • 0674993624
  • 043499328X
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: lateng
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.,London
• Pages/Volumes: 5 v.
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • NDLC : KE211
  • NDC6 : 992
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115