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A number of Latin translations of modern literature have been made to bolster interest in the language. The perceived dryness of classical literature is sometimes a major obstacle for achieving fluency in reading Latin , as it discourages students from reading large quantities of text ( extensive reading ).
Titus Maccius Plautus [1] (/ ˈ p l ɔː t ə s /, PLAW-təs; c. 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety.
A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος prólogos, from πρό pró, "before" and λόγος lógos, "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information.
Aulularia is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus.The title literally means The Little Pot, but some translators provide The Pot of Gold, and the plot revolves around a literal pot of gold which the miserly protagonist, Euclio, guards zealously.
Prologus ('Prologue'), an introduction written by Robet of Ketton to the two or three works which follow, sometimes interpreted as a letter to Peter the Venerable [8] Chronica mendosa et ridicula Sarracenorum ('Mistake-Laden and Ridiculous Chronicle of the Saracens'), a history of Islam translated by Robert of Ketton from an unidentified ...
The Prologue is the first section of four books of the Prose Edda, consisting of a euhemerized Christian account of the origins of Norse mythology: the Nordic gods are described as human Trojan warriors who left Troy after the fall of that city (an origin which parallels Virgil's Aeneid).
The US will honor the late former President Jimmy Carter, who died at age 100 on December 29. President Joe Biden declared January 9 as a day of mourning in an executive order – the same day as ...
The book consists of a prologue, 112 brief satires, and an epilogue, all illustrated with woodcuts. [4] Brant takes up the ship of fools trope, popular at the time, lashing with unsparing vigor the weaknesses and vices of his time. [citation needed] He conceives Saint Grobian, whom he imagines to be the patron saint of vulgar and coarse people.