1. Plautus: Menaechmi Translate this page T. MACCI PLAVTI MENAECHMI. PERSONAE. PENICVLVS PARASITVS MENAECHMVS MENAECHMVS (SOSICLES) EROTIUM MERETRIX CYLINDRUS COCVS MESSENIO http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/plaut.menaechmi.html

T. MACCI PLAVTI MENAECHMI PERSONAE PENICVLVS PARASITVS MENAECHMVS MENAECHMVS (SOSICLES) EROTIUM MERETRIX CYLINDRUS COCVS MESSENIO SERVVS ANCILLA MATRONA SENEX MEDICVS ARGVMENTVM Mercator Siculus, quoi erant gemini filii, Ei surrupto altero mors optigit. Nomen surrepticii illi indit qui domist Avos paternus, facit Maenaechmum e Sosicle. Et is germanum, postquam adolevit, quaeritat Circum omnis oras. post Epidamnum devenit: Hic fuerat alitus ille surrepticius. Menaechmum omnes civem credunt advenam Eumque appellant meretrix, uxor et socer. I se cognoscunt fratres postremo invicem. PROLOGVS Salutem primum iam a principio propitiam mihi atque vobis, spectatores, nuntio. apporto vobis Plautum, lingua non manu, quaeso ut benignis accipiatis auribus. nunc argumentum accipite atque animum advortite; 5 quam potero in verba conferam paucissuma. Atque hoc poetae faciunt in comoediis: omnis res gestas esse Athenis autumant, quo illud vobis graecum videatur magis; ego nusquam dicam nisi ubi factum dicitur. 10 atque adeo hoc argumentum graecissat, tamen non atticissat, verum sicilicissitat.

2. Plautus, Titus Maccius (c. 254-184 B.C.) A biography of the Roman playwright Titus Maccius plautus. plautus " the single name by which modern writers refer to this writer of Roman comedy, was merely a nickname which in It is doubtful whether plautus ever achieved Roman citizenship http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/plautus_001.html

Home Ancient Theatre Medieval Theatre 16th Century ... Email Us TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS (c. 254-184 B.C.) " P LAUTUS," the single name by which modern writers refer to this writer of Roman comedy, was merely a nickname which in exact Umbrian dialect meant "flatfoot." It is exactly as though, today, we were to say, "John Jones, Beanpole." It is doubtful whether Plautus ever achieved Roman citizenship. He is supposed to have made money working around the Roman stages as carpenter or mechanic; to have set himself up in some sort of business where he promptly lost his entire savings; finally to have been reduced to turning a handmill for a baker. It is during this period, according to tradition, that he probably sold his first plays to the managers of the public games and thus began the playwriting career that lasted for nearly forty years. The plays of Plautus, as was the custom, had Greek characters, Greek names, and Greek scenery, but the manners and flavor were distinctly Roman. Most of his plots Plautus adopted whole from Greek originals of the "

3. Writings And Career Of Plautus A biography of the Roman dramatist plautus and analysis of his poetic qualities. Purchase Plays by plautus. Titus Maccius plautus was esteemed by the Romans as their greatest dramatist, and still http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/plautus001.html

WRITINGS AND CAREER OF PLAUTUS This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 2 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 159-165. Purchase Plays by Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus was esteemed by the Romans as their greatest dramatist, and still holds a high rank among the comic writers of the world. Twenty of his plays are extant, and though a few of them are incomplete, they have reached us, in the main, as they were written. The maturity which comedy attained in a single generation affords remarkable contrast to the slow process by which other literature was developed in Rome. This is probably due to the dramatic and musical medleys, which, in their allusions to current events and their spirit of banter, must have had a close affinity with the dialogue of Plautus, and also to the use of the Latin language as the organ of business among urban communities. More, however, was due to the genius and command of language possessed by the two oldest creators of Roman literature, and Plautus.

4. Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 - C. 184 B.C.) Brief biography of Titus Maccius plautus, ancient Rome s bestknown playwrightplus links to all of his works currently in print. Titus Maccius plautus. http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc21.html

Titus Maccius Plautus Sometime around 254 B.C., in the tiny mountain village of Sarsina high in the Apennines of Umbria, ancient Rome's best-known playwright was bornTitus Maccius Plautus. Born "Plautus" or "splay-foot", he apparently managed to escape his backwoods village at a young ageperhaps by joining one of the itinerant theatrical troupes which commonly traveled from village to village performing short boisterous farces. We know, however, that at some point the young Plautus gave up his acting career to become a Roman soldier, and this is probably when he was exposed to the delights of the Greek stage, specifically Greek New Comedy and the plays of Menander . Sometime later, he tried his hand as a merchant, but rashly trusted his wares to the sea and at the age of 45, he found himself penniless and reduced to a wandering miller, trudging through the streets with a hand-mill, grinding corn for householders. Meanwhile, translations of Greek New Comedy had come into vogue and Plautuswho remembered the comedies of Menander from his days as a soldier in Southern Italydecided to try his hand at writing for the stage. His earliest plays

5. Plautus Amphitruo. Asinaria. Aulularia. Bacchides. Captivi. Casina. Cistellaria. Curculio. Epidicus. Menaechmi. Mercator. Miles Gloriosus. Mostellaria. Persa. Poenulus. Pseudolus. Rudens. Stichus. Trinummus . http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/plaut.html

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6. Plautus, Terence, And Cicero By Sanderson Beck BECK index. plautus, Terence, and Cicero. This chapter is part of the book ANCIENT WISDOM AND FOLLY, which TheMenaechmi by plautus is a comedy of errors, as Shakespeare called http://www.san.beck.org/EC26-Cicero.html

BECK index Plautus, Terence, and Cicero This chapter is part of the book ANCIENT WISDOM AND FOLLY, which has now been published. For information on ordering click here. Plautus The Menaechmi ... Cicero on Ethics Roman culture originated out of Etruscan rituals and religion and was influenced greatly by the Greeks. Livy described how Etruscan dance and music were introduced in Rome during a plague in 364 BC to appease the gods. Histrionic gestures were developed into dialogs with plots adapted from Greek tragedies and comedies by a Greek slave named Livius Andronicus by 240 BC. Andronicus translated Homer's Odyssey into Latin, and it was used in schools for generations. Short Oscan plays from Campania using mime called fabula Atellana were based on the characters of the stupid clown Maccus, the bragging glutton Bucco, the foolish old Pappus, and the hunchback trickster Dossennus. In the late third century BC Gnaeus Naevius wrote an epic on the first Punic war , a few tragedies about the Trojan war, and dozens of comedies based on Greek plays as well as one play about Romulus and Remus and one about the victory by consul Marcellus over the Insubrian Gauls in 222 BC; the plays of Naevius were so critical of political figures that he was imprisoned and went into exile. Greek tragedies were also adapted by Quintius Ennius (239-169 BC), Marcus Pacuvius (c. 220-c. 130 BC), and Lucius Accius (170-c. 86 BC), and Greek comedies were translated by the freed Insubrian slave Caecilius Statius (c. 219-c. 166 BC), but these are all lost.

7. Reputation Of Plautus REPUTATION OF plautus. This document was originally published in The Drama Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. Back to plautus Index. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/plautus002.html

REPUTATION OF PLAUTUS This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 2 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 165-167. By the Romans themselves various judgements have been passed on Plautus . Varro says if the Muses were to speak Latin they would borrow his language. Quintilian and Aulus Gellius speak of him with the highest praise; but Horace, whose judgement should have great weight, is not so favorable, as this criticism shows: "But our forefathers were taken with the jokes and numbers of Plautus, and admired them with too much indulgence, not to call it stupidity, if it be true that either you or I can distinguish a genteel from a clownish expression, and have ears fine enough to judge of the harmony and beauty of versification." It appears that Horace was not alone in this opinion, and that the court of Augustus had no greater liking than he, either for the versification or the pleasantries of Plautus. As to his verses, it is certain that he was far from being exact. Nor is it less certain that he has flat, low and often extravagant pleasantries, but at the same time he has such as are fine and delicate. Cicero, for this reason, who was no bad judge of what the ancients called urbanity, proposes him as a model for raillery. The faults of Plautus, therefore, do not mar his excellence as a poet; they are very happily atoned for by many fine qualities, inasmuch that, in the judgment of some critics, he disputes the prize even with

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9. Plautus Famous Romans Index. plautus. 251 B.C. 184 B.C. Titus Maccius plautus's birth appears to have been no later than 251 B.C. in Sarsina, a town of three thousand in Umbria. He died in or around 184 B.C. as a handyman in the theater and progressed to acting. plautus was fairly successful in theater http://www.dl.ket.org/latinlit/historia/people/plautus/plautus.htm

Famous Romans Famous Romans Index Plautus 251 B.C. - 184 B.C. Titus Maccius Plautus's birth appears to have been no later than 251 B.C. in Sarsina, a town of three thousand in Umbria. He died in or around 184 B.C. His life began surrounded by theater in one fashion or another. As a youth he worked as a handyman in the theater and progressed to acting. Plautus was fairly successful in theater. After his acting career, Plautus worked in several arenas. He was a merchant and also a moneylender. It was as a moneylender that he lost his wealth and became bankrupt. After this financial disaster and during the Second Punic War, he served in the Roman Army for a period of six years. Upon his return to Rome, Plautus, being too old to act, became a very popular dramatist. During this time he wrote the Saturio and the Addictus, among others. His plays could be seen in production long after his death. There has been much confusion in the past about which plays were actually Plautus' and which were imitators. It has been stated that Plautus had a habit of "touching up" plays written by others, which would lead to confusion. Later playwrights began to use some of his plays in their own plays. Menaechmi is the play on which Shakespeare based his own work Comedy of Errors.

10. Titus Maccius Plautus: Monologues An index of monologues by Titus Maccius plautus. http://www.monologuearchive.com/p/plautus.html

MONOLOGUES BY TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS: Casina - comic monologue for a man. Casina - comic monologue for a man. The Casket Comedy - comic monologue for a man. The Casket Comedy - comic monologue for a woman. Menaechmi - comic monologue for a man. RELATED LINKS: Menaechmi or The Twin Brothers - A synopsis of the play by Plautus. Plautus - A biography and list of related links. Plautus - A brief biography. Titus Maccius Plautus - A biography. Writings and Career of Plautus - Learn about the life and works of the comic dramatist. Purchase books by Plautus Search eBay! or Abebooks for more books by Plautus. MONOLOGUE INDEX Comic Monologues for Men Comic Monologues for Women Dramatic Monologues for Men Dramatic Monologues for Women ... Monologues for Children BROWSE MONOLOGUES BY PLAYWRIGHT: A B C D ... Email Us onologuearchive.com

11. Plauto Information on a high level seminar in Urbino, Italy organized by the International Plautine Studies (CISP) and PLAVTVS (Plautine Centre of Research, UrbinoSarsina). http://www.uniurb.it/CivAnt/plautoin.htm

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI URBINO COMUNE DI SARSINA 2nd Plautine Days . From the 4th to the 8th September 2000 a Seminar of high scientific level for young Italian and foreign scholars will be held in Urbino organized by the International Plautine Studies (CISP) and PLAVTVS (Plautine Centre of Research, Urbino-Sarsina) and under the auspices of the Municipality of Sarsina and of the Institute of Ancient Civilization of the Urbino University. The subject of the Seminar is PLAUTUS AND THE MODELS . The Seminar will take place at the Institute of Ancient Civilization with the following programme:: September 4th, 16.30 p.m. E.W. Handley (Cambridge), ´ Actoris opera´: words, action and acting in ´Dìs Exapatôn´ and ´Bacchides´ September 5th, 9.30 a.m. G. Guastella (Siena), Modelli culturali stranieri nelle Commedie di Plauto. 16.30 p.m. M. Bettini (Siena), Sterilità feconda: l'autoritratto di Gelasimo nello 'Stichus'. September 6th, 9.30 a.m. R. Oniga (Udine), I modelli del 'canticum' di Sosia. September 7th

12. Titus Maccius Plautus: Plays, Other Books Click Here. Back to Titus Maccius plautus. Titus Maccius plautus Plays Back to Titus Maccius plautus. Back to Moonstruck Drama Bookstore. http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc21p.html

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13. Greek And Roman Comedy A history of the comic drama, focusing on its origins and development in the works of Aristophanes, Menander, plautus and Terence. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/comedy001.html

GREEK AND ROMAN COMEDY This document was originally published in The Development of the Drama . Brander Matthews. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. pp. 74-106. Although the true dramatist cannot but conceive both the incidents of his play and its personages at the same moment, yet we are accustomed to consider tragedy and comedy nobler than melodrama and farce, because in the former the characters themselves seem to create the situations of the plot and to dominate its structure; whereas in the latter it is obvious rather that the situations have evoked the characters, and that these are realized only in so far as the conduct of the story may cause them to reveal the characteristics thus called for. Comedy, then, appears to us as a humorous piece, the action of which is caused by the clash of character on character; and this is a definition which fits THE MISANTHROPE , THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, and THE GENDRE DE M. POIRIER

14. Latin Texts A collection of latin texts Apuleius, Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Juvenal, Lucan, Lucretius, Livy, plautus, Pliny Major, Pliny Minor, Quintilian, Sallust, and Tacitus. http://www.freewebs.com/omniamundamundis/

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15. Plautus Pronunciation Key. plautus ( Titus Maccius plautus), c. 254184 B.C. Latin and governed by a genius for situation and coarse humor, plautus' comedies achieved a great reputation http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0839341.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... D-Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia Plautus u s] Pronunciation Key Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), c. 254 B.C. Amphitruo Amphitryon Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator, Miles gloriosus, Mostellaria, Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Rudens, Stichus, Trinummus, Truculentus, and Vidularia (in fragments). See G. E. Duckworth, The Complete Roman Drama The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Plauen player piano Related content from HighBeam Research on: Plautus Nullus Me Est Hodie Poenus Poenior: Balanced Ethnic Humor in Plautus' Poenulus.(Critical Essay) (Helios) Playing house: stage, space, and domesticity in Plautus's Mostellaria.(Critical Essay) (Helios) Violence and the Performance of Class in Plautus' Casina.(Critical Essay) (Helios) Plautus, Titus Maccius (c. 250-c. 184 BC)

16. Römisches Theater Professor Stroh stellt die Geschichte des r¶mischen Theaters, die Gattungen, Rahmenbedingungen und die Beteiligten (Dichter, Schauspieler, etc) vor. AuŸerdem interpretiert er u. a. den Miles Gloriosus des plautus und die Hecyra des Terenz. http://www.klassphil.uni-muenchen.de/~stroh/roemtheater.htm

Zur Homepage Wilfried Stroh Literarisches Schauspiel als Massenunterhaltung spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae ludi Romani saturae modis impletae saturae mythos , lat.: argumentum Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes / intulit agresti Latio ). Rom ging beim unterworfenen Griechenland in die Schule. fabulae praetextae , d. h. "Dramen in der praetexta fabulae togatae tria corda O poetam egregium! togatae Oderint dum metuant De arte poetica Medea ludi ludi Romani (im September), die ludi plebei ludi votivi (Spiele ex voto), etwa zu Tempelweihungen und Triumphen, und vor allem auch ludi funebres Hecyra Dichter, Regisseure, Schauspieler und Geld grex ), genauer gesagt: deren Oberhaupt ( dominus gregis Das geringste Ansehen aber hat der Schauspieler ( actor oder histrio corpore quaestum facere dominus gregis infamis Graecia capta cavea ), eingeteilt in nach oben anwachsende Keile ( cunei proscaenium oder pulpitum orchestra aulaeum Den Namen scaena praetexta und togata cothurnus ) genannte ( fabula cothurnata fabula palliata pallium trabeata tibicen , d. h. des Spielers auf der

17. Plautus - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia plautus. plautus s comedies, which are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature, are all adaptations of Greek models for a Roman audience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautus

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Other languages: Deutsch Italiano Latina Plautus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Titus Maccius Plautus was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic . The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about and 184 BCE . Twenty-one plays survive. Plautus' comedies , which are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature , are all adaptations of Greek models for a Roman audience. The characters remain in Greek settings, or perhaps a Greek setting imagined by a Roman. His most typical character is the clever slave who manipulates his master, undermining some of our conceptions of normal social relationships in the Roman world. Plautus' work gave ideas to many playwrights afterwards, such as William Shakespeare Molière Lessing and others. His comedies were also the basis for the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum See also: Terence External link The complete works of Plautus at The Latin Library Edit this page Discuss this page ... Related changes Other languages: Deutsch Italiano Latina Main Page ... Recent changes This page was last modified 15:46, 27 May 2004. All text is available under the terms of the

18. Plautus Prayers To Various Deities From the works of plautus, prayers to various gods and goddesses. http://www.novaroma.org/religio_romana/plautus_prayers_to_various_deities.html

Prayers to Various Deities from the Plays of Plautus PRAYER TO APOLLO Apollo, quaeso te, ut des pacem propitius, salutem et sanitatem nostrae familiae, meoque ut parcas gnato pace propitius (Apollo, I beseech you, graciously grant peace, safety and sound health to our family, and spare my son by your gracious favour) (Mercator, 678-680) TO SPES BONA (GOOD HOPE) Spes Bona, obsecro, subventa mihi, exime ex hoc miseram metu (Good Hope, please hear and aid me, and help me out of my misfortune) (Rudens, 231-2) PRAYER TO THE LAR FAMILIARIS AND THE DI PENATES Di Penates meium parentum, familiai Lar pater, vobis mando, meum parentum rem bene ut tutemini (Divine Penates of my parents, Lar father of the family, I commend to you the good fortune of my parents, (and ) that you guard them well) (Mercator, 834-5) Larem corona nostrum decor(o)... venerare ut nobis haec habitatio bona fausta felix fortunataque evenat (I... adorn our Lar with a garland, so that we and our house may have good fortune, happiness and prosperity) (Trinummus, 39-41) Di, obsecro vostram fidem (Gods, keep faith, I beg you) (Cistellaria, 663)

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