Description
Book SynopsisA Companion to Terence is a useful research tool for the growing number of scholars, students and critics of Terence and Roman comedy.
Trade Review"In this Volume, the editors have aimed to offer 'a wide-ranging guide to studying Terence's plays within the historical and social-political context in which they were produced'. Their goal has been realized- but neither fully nor without problems; and, although there is a wealth of information contextualizing the playright and his work, the notion that his plays were primarily comic strips designed for live performances should have been represented more strongly in the volume." (
The Journal of Roman Studies, May 2016)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Antony Augoustakis and Ariana Traill
PART I Terence and Ancient Comedy 15
1. Terence and Greek New Comedy 17
Peter Brown
2. Terence and the Traditions of Roman New Comedy 33
George Fredric Franko
3. Terence and Non-Comic Intertexts 52
Alison Sharrock
4. Fabula Stataria: Language and Humor in Terence 69
Heather Vincent
5. Meter and Music 89
Timothy J. Moore
PART II Contexts and Themes 111
6. Terence and the Scipionic Grex 113
Daniel P. Hanchey
7. opera in bello, in otio, in negotio: Terence and Rome in the 160s bce 132
John H. Starks, Jr.
8. Religious Ritual and Family Dynamics in Terence 156
T.H.M. Gellar-Goad
9. Gender and Sexuality in Terence 175
Sharon L. James
10. Family and Household in the Comedies of Terence 195
Z.M. Packman
11. Masters and Slaves 211
Evangelos Karakasis
PART III The Plays 223
12. Andria 225
Robert Germany
13. Heauton Timorumenos 243
Eckard Lef èvre
14. Eunuchus 262
David M. Christenson
15. Phormio 281
Stavros Frangoulidis
16. Hecyra 295
Ortwin Knorr
17. Adelphoe 318
Ariana Traill
PART IV Reception 341
18. History of the Text and Scholia 343
Benjamin Victor
19. Terence in Latin Literature from the Second Century bce to the Second Century ce 363
Roman Müller
20. Terence in Late Antiquity 380
Andrew Cain
21. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Christianizes Terence 397
Antony Augoustakis
22. ‘‘Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him’’: Terence in Early Modern England 410
Martine van Elk
23. mulier inopia et cognatorum neglegentia coacta: Thornton Wilder’s Tragic Take on The Woman of Andros 429
Mathias Hanses
24. Terence in Translation 446
John Barsby
25. Performing Terence (and Hrotsvit) Now 466
Mary-Kay Gamel
References 482
General Index 515
Index Locorum 523
