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200 10$aComedy and the rise of Rome$b[electronic resource] /$fMatthew Leigh
210   $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2004
215   $a1 online resource (254 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [192]-202) and indexes.
327   $aContents; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Plautus and Hannibal; 3. The Captivi and the Paradoxes of Postliminium; 4. City, Land, and Sea: New Comedy and the Discourse of Economies; 5. Fatherhood and the Habit of Command: L. Aemilius Paullus and the Adelphoe; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index Nominum et Rerum
330   $aThis is an original study of the plays of the two great Roman comic playwrights Plautus and Terence in the context of political and economic change in Rome in the third and second centuries BC. In contrast to the dominant trend of viewing the plays by reference to their largely lost Greek originals, the book adopts a historicist approach that concentrates on their effect on a contemporary audience. Matthew Leigh combines a close reading of individual texts with a theoretically. sophisticated approach to Roman self-construction. - ;Comedy and the Rise of Rome invites the reader to consider Roma
606   $aLatin drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism
606   $aHistory, Ancient, in literature
606   $aLiterature and history$zRome
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