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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. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature.
Pseudolus is a play by the ancient Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus.It is one of the earliest examples of Roman literature. Pseudolus was first shown in 191 BC during the Megalesian Festival, [1] which was a celebration for the Greek Goddess Cybele. [2]
Curculio, also called The Weevil, is a Latin comedic play for the early Roman theatre by Titus Maccius Plautus.It is the shortest of Plautus's surviving plays. The date of the play is not known, but de Melo suggests it may come from the middle period of Plautus's career (c. 205–184 BC), from the moderate amount of musical passages it contains. Other indications of date are a possible ...
Poenulus, also called The Little Carthaginian or The Little Punic Man, is a Latin comedic play for the early Roman theatre by Titus Maccius Plautus, probably written between 195 and 189 BC. [1] The play is noteworthy for containing text in Carthaginian Punic, spoken by the character Hanno in the fifth act.
Bacchides is a Latin comedy by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. The title has been translated as The Bacchises, and the plot revolves around the misunderstandings surrounding two sisters, each called Bacchis, who work in a brothel. It includes Plautus' frequent theme of a clever servant outwitting his supposed superior to get ...
Miles Gloriosus is a comedic play written by Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254–184 B.C.). The title can be translated as "The Swaggering Soldier" or "Vainglorious Soldier". His source for Miles Gloriosus was a Greek play, now lost, called Alazon or The Braggar
A variation of the proverb appeared as line 495 in the play Asinaria by Plautus: "Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit ", [2] which has been translated as "Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger," or "A man is a wolf rather than a man to another man, when he hasn't yet found out what that man is like."
Presented with the “dead” Philia, the great Gloriosus accepts the death of his intended bride without rage, but announces his intention of cutting "her" heart out as a memorial. Alarmed, the supposedly dead "Philia" comes back to life, and a chase ensues across Rome and into the countryside, with Pseudolus helping himself to Gymnasia.