In the following essay, Konstan probes the tension between private emotion and public social codes in Phormio, observing that this dual subject constitutes one of the main themes of the play.
Teren...
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In the essay below, Bohm delineates the differing attitudes toward money held by six characters in Phormio.
Terence begins three of his six plays with a protactic character, which Donatus defines a...
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In the excerpt below, Konstan explores the theme of private emotion versus social codes in Phormio.
Terence particularly favored such plots as the frame story in [Plautus's] Cistellaria, bas...
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Critical Essay by David Konstan
