SOURCE: "Thematic Unity in Terence's Andria," in Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 108, 1978, pp. 103-14.

In the essay below, McGarrity examines the father-son relationship between Simo and Pamphilus in The Girl from Andros.

Scholarship on the Andria has focused primarily on two additions by Terence: first, the freedman Sosia in the opening scene, and then the second young lover Charinus and his slave Byrria. The attention on these two alterations has been directed particularly toward a consideration of Menander's Greek original of the Andria. The purpose of this paper, however, is to show that there is a continuing theme in the Andria of Terence and that these two changes by Terence develop and support this theme.

The father-son relationship is a favorite theme of Terence, and it appears most fully developed in the Adelphoe. The Andria, however, offers the first treatment of this theme and in a...