Publius Terentius Afer , better known as Terence, was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic. His date of birth is -184 in Carthage, he was a berber, but his comedies were performed for the first time ca. 170 BC-160 BC, and he died young in 159 BC....
Terence (195-159 BC), or Publius Terentius Afer, was a Roman comic playwright. As a translator and adapter of the Greek New Comedy, produced about 336-250 BC, he gave near-perfect form and expression in Latin to the comedy of manners. Information about...
By composing six popular comedies, Terence became pivotal in the development of Latin literature and, because his plays have never ceased to be read, eventually of European drama. Writing toward the beginning of Rome's engagement with Greek culture,...
Publius Terentius Afer, better known as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time ca. 170-160 BC, and he died young probably in 159 BC, in Greece or on his way back to Rome. Terentius Lucanus, a...
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Below, Martin supplies a summary of the development of Roman comedy to Terence's time, and then goes on to discuss the sources, themes, characters, and style of the The Brothers.
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