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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.
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.
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]
999 features nine main characters, who are forced to participate in the Nonary Game by an unknown person code-named Zero. [2] For the majority of the game, the characters adopt code names to protect their identities due to the stakes of the Nonary Game—most of their names are ultimately revealed over the course of the game, and for several their true identities are important to the plot. [10]
An Escape section in Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors.The player escapes rooms by solving puzzles, which involves finding and combining items. The gameplay of the series is divided into two types of segments: Novel sections – presented in a visual novel format in the first two games, [5] and as animated cutscenes in the third [36] – and Escape sections, which are escape-the-room ...
Sweeney Agonistes by T. S. Eliot was his first attempt at writing a verse drama although he was unable to complete the piece. In 1926 and 1927 he separately published two scenes from this attempt and then collected them in 1932 in a small book under the title Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama.
[2] [9] A contested mention of a poet of the name "Valerius Flaccus" is by Martial (1.76), [ 10 ] who refers to a native of Padua . A subscription in the Vatican manuscript adds the name Setinus Balbus , a name which suggests that its holder was a native of Setia in Latium , however it is not clear if this inscription refers to "Valerius ...
The prologue—taking the form of a literary confession—was most probably modelled on that of "Faus Semblaunt" in the medieval French poem Roman de la Rose. [11] The tale of the three rioters is a version of a folk tale with a "remarkably wide range" [ 12 ] and has numerous analogues: ancient Buddhist , Persian , [ 13 ] and African .