Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus

by Plautus

Book Overview

Still funny after two thousand years, the Roman playwright Plautus wrote around 200 B.C.E., a period when Rome was fighting neighbors on all fronts, including North Africa and the Near East. These three plays--originally written for a wartime audience of refugees, POWs, soldiers and veterans, exiles, immigrants, people newly enslaved in the wars, and citizens--tap into the mix of fear, loathing, and curiosity with which cultures, particularly Western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520242750
• ISBN13: 9780520242753
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"

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Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus

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