Overview

Miles Gloriosus or ""Braggart Warrior"" is one of the best-known and liveliest Roman comedies. It shows Plautus at his ablest in ingenious plot construction, vivid characterization, fast-moving action, and humorous dialogue. This edition of the Latin text is fully and very helpfully annotated. The substantial introduction considers the antecedents of Plautus's drama in Greek New Comedy and in Italic farce, his mixture of Greek and Roman both in language and in the life portrayed, and his stagecraft, language, and meter.

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Author:   Plautus ,  Mason Hammond ,  Arthur M. Mack ,  Walter Moskalew
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Edition:   New ed of 2 Revised ed
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9780674574373

ISBN 10:   0674574370
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   25 March 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   Latin

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION GREEK DRAMA Greek Tragedy Origins (Attic and Dorian) of Comedy Old, Middle, and New Attic Comedy ROMAN DRAMA Native Italic drama Earliest Latin writers of drama Plautus' life Plautus' plays: dates, Greek tone, contaminatio Roman drama after Plautus Later influence of Roman comedy STAGE AND PRODUCTION Greek theaters Roman theaters and stage setting Production: occasions, actors, costumes, music (cantica and diuerbia), instruments Act and scene divisions, didascaliae, argumenta, prologues The Miles: date, Greek original, plot, unified by Palaestrio, moralizing passages, entrances and exits, Roman allusions, later influence METERS Rhythm, ictus and accent, length of syllables, metrical substitution, metrical feet, caesura and diaeresis Trochaic septenarius Iambic senarius and septenarius Anapaestic septenarius Index of meters LANGUAGE General Prosody: accent and ictus, elision, prodelision of es and est, crasis, hiatus, synizesis, iambic shortening, suppression of final -e, final -s need not make position, shift of ictus on the same forms Words borrowed from Greek Poetic devices: alliteration, assonance, wordplay, metaphors Constructions: genitives, parataxis, parenthetical words, directional adverbs in -o, fui for sum in perfect passive Stem variations: -o- for -e-, -ei- for -1-, -1for 4-, -u- for 4-, -cl-/-pl- for -eul-/-pul-, -os and -om for -as and -urn, deuces and cassabant, ap-/op- for ab-lob- Case forms of declensions: mers and lacte, -at for -ae, -urn for -orum, -din the ablative and accusative Pronouns: intensive endings, forms of is, quis feminine, qui ablative and adverb, demonstratives with -ce, ecce, ecquis Verb stems: contracted perfects, -ss- in perfect, -s- in future and perfect, aio,fio Verbal endings: -ier in passive infinitive, -ibo in future, dic, due, fac, and fer, cedo, -i- in perfect. c-cm. Forms of sum. TEXT Manuscripts and text of Plautus Editions on which this edition is based BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUGGESTIONS Bibliography General Translations Theater New Comedy Roman comedy Plautine chronology Plautus' originality Dramatic technique Language Meter Manuscripts Later influence TEXT AND NOTES

Reviews

At last we have an excellent edition for college students of Plautus's Miles with notes in English...Its virtues are many...The Miles [will be] a joy to read and teach. Classical World A fine edition of the Miles Gloriosus...Especially useful for the student. Classical Bulletin Thanks to the editors, undergraduates will now have accessible a thoroughly helpful and interesting commentary. Journal of Roman Studies

At last we have an excellent edition for college students of Plautus's Miles with notes in English...Its virtues are many...The Miles [will be] a joy to read and teach.

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Mason Hammond was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Harvard University.

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