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Documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial periods of Rome. Mathias Hanses traces the plays' reception, and shines a bright light on the relationships between comic texts and the works of contemporary and later Latin writers.

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An extremely ambitious undertaking on multiple fronts, the book promises to cast new light not only on the entire genre of Roman comedy itself but also on how virtually the entire corpus of late republican and early imperial Latin literature engaged with comic writing as a modello codice. It brilliantly accomplishes its goal." - Judith Hallett, University of Maryland

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 12/10/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472132256, 978-0472132256
      ISBN10: 0472132253
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      Literary studies: ancient, classical Literary studies: plays and playwrights

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial periods of Rome. Mathias Hanses traces the plays' reception, and shines a bright light on the relationships between comic texts and the works of contemporary and later Latin writers.

      Trade Review
      An extremely ambitious undertaking on multiple fronts, the book promises to cast new light not only on the entire genre of Roman comedy itself but also on how virtually the entire corpus of late republican and early imperial Latin literature engaged with comic writing as a modello codice. It brilliantly accomplishes its goal." - Judith Hallett, University of Maryland

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