SOURCE: "Hecyra: Ironic Comedy," in Roman Comedy, Cornell, 1983, pp. 130-41.
In the excerpt below, Konstan contends that The Mother-in-Law interrogates the traditional Roman values of amor and pietas (love and filial duty) and in the process "challenges and confounds their customary meanings. "
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