Emilia A. Barbiero (New York University)

Letters in Plautus

Writing Between the Lines

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Produktbeschreibung

Illuminates the origins of the earliest surviving poetry written in Latin and addresses a question that has vexed readers of Plautine comedy since the birth of modern philology: how did Plautus translate? Of interest to scholars of Latin poetry, the Roman Republic, book history and the history of western drama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781009168519
• ISBN-10: 1009168517
• Artikelnr.: 64171408

Autorenporträt

Emilia A. Barbiero is an Assistant Professor of Classics at New York University. She has published extensively on Plautus and on ancient letters both Greek and Latin.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Critical Editions
Note on the Text
Introduction
1. Bacchides: A Scene of Writing
2. Persa: Whose Play Is It Anyway?
3. Pseudolus: Fake It Till You Make it
4. Curculio: The Ring Is a/the Thing
5. Epidicus and Trinummus: The Roads Not Taken
Postscripts
Appendix: Text, Reading and Writing in Plautus
Bibliography.