SOURCE: "Terence" in Ancient Comedy: The War of the Generations, Twayne Publishers, 1993, pp. 109-22.
In the essay below, Sutton discusses Terence's use of realism in The Brothers, concluding that his plays were unpopular because "at their very heart is a philosophy of life that is incompatible with the innate outlook of ancient comedy."
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