Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy (The Robson Classical Lectures)

Inaugurates a series of lectures and volumes on broad aspects of classical Roman and Greek culture. Ties together some recent thought on Plautus' comedies of the third and second centuries B.C., contending that they demonstrate a high point of early Roman literature that rivaled even that of Greek some centuries before. Augmented from the 1987 lectures in Toronto. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.