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050 00 $aPA6756.A1$bB6 1992
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100 0 $aTerence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79066715
240 10 $aWorks.$lEnglish.$f1992$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91089734
245 10 $aTerence, the comedies /$ctranslations by Palmer Bovie, Constance Carrier, and Douglass Parker ; edited by Palmer Bovie.
250 $aJohns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c1992.
300 $axxi, 398 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aComplete Roman drama in translation
500 $aOriginally published: The complete comedies of Terence. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1974.
505 00 $tPreface /$rPalmer Bovie --$tThe Girl from Andros (Andria) --$tThe Self-Tormentor (Heautontimorumenos) --$tThe Eunuch (Eunouchus) --$tPhormio --$tThe Brothers (Adelphoe) --$tHer Husband's Mother (Hecyra).
520 $aThe works of Terence have been part of the world's heritage of dramatic literature for more than two thousand years--and they are still being staged and enjoyed. In English translations that achieve a lively readability without sacrificing the dramatic and comic impact of the original Latin, this volume presents all six comedies: The Girl from Andros (Andria), The Self-Tormentor (Heautontimorumenos), The Eunuch (Eunouchus), Phormio, The Brothers (Adelphoe), and Her Husband's Mother(Hecyra).
520 8 $aPublius Terentius Afer--our Terence--was a slave from North Africa, brought as a boy from Carthage and sold to a wealthy Roman named Marcus Terentius Lucanus. Recognizing the boy's natural charm and genius, Marcus Terentius had Terence educated along with his own children and eventually set the gifted young man free. Terence took to his education in Latin and Greek literature and was soon writing plays of his own--Roman comedies in Latin poetry, based on Greek models.
520 8 $aThe plays were performed for Romans from every walk of life, who crowded the improvised theaters on festival days. Before his death by shipwreck at age thirty-six--on a voyage to Greece in search of manuscripts by Menander--he had become one of Rome's most popular comedic playwrights.
520 8 $aTo Terence, "nothing human is foreign." His comedies revel in the complex relationships and amusing cross-purposes of typical "worthies" and their interfering friends. Lovers survive nerve-wracking comic trials. Young men, helped by their stoic slaves, reconcile with angry fathers and uncles. Tutors, lawyers, and middlemen--the "unworthies"--are content to play both ends against the middle.
520 8 $aTerence's engaging portrayals of the "generation gap" and other timeless subjects conquered an unruly Roman populace--and, in these translations, will captivate modern readers.
600 00 $aTerence$vTranslations into English.
655 7 $aComedies.$2gsafd
700 1 $aBovie, Smith Palmer.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50045311
700 1 $aCarrier, Constance.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50033103
700 1 $aParker, Douglass.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87900885
830 0 $aComplete Roman drama in translation.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91089748
852 00 $bglx$hPA6756.A1$iB6 1992