SOURCE: "The Comic Spirit in Plautus and Terence" in The Roman Way, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1932, pp. 47-63.
A German-born classical scholar, essayist, and translator, Hamilton is best known as an explicator of ancient cultures for the modern reader. Her studies include The Roman Way (1932) and Spokesmen for God: The Great Teachers of the Old Testament (1949). Below, she compares the style of Terence with that of his predecessor, Plautus.
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