Stichus. Three-Dollar Day. Truculentus. The Tale of a Traveling-Bag. Fragments
By Plautus
205
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The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205 184 bce, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Moliere to modern times. This fifth volume of a new Loeb edition of all twenty-one of Plautus s extant comedies presents "Stichus, Three-Dollar Day, Truculentus, The Tale of a Traveling-Bag," and fragments with freshly edited texts, lively modern translations, introductions, and ample explanatory notes."
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Plautus
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Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest works in Latin literature to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of Latin literature, Livius Andronicus. The word Plautine refers to both Plautus' own works and works similar to or influenced by his.
