SOURCE: "Terence" in The Comic Theatre of Greece and Rome, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977, pp. 135-47.
Sandbach is a well-known English classicist. In the following essay, he explores Terence's plays in the light of their Greek models, asserting that, while in some ways Terence did "enrich"Menander's comedies, his style has been "too equable, [lacking the ebb and flow which gives life to the Greek poet's writing and enables him to mirror every kind of emotion."]
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