SOURCE: "Phormio: Citizen Disorder" in Roman Comedy, Cornell, 1983, pp. 115-29.
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.
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