Plautus: The Comedies

by Plautus

Book Overview

"The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." Now Bovie and David Slavitt have brought together a distinguished group of translators for the final two volumes of a four-volume set containing all twenty-one surviving comedies of one of Western literature's greatest dramatists.

Born in Sarsina, Umbria, in 254 B.C., Plautus is said to have worked in Rome as a stage carpenter and later as a miller's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801850738
• ISBN13: 9780801850738
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"