Decimus Laberius: The Fragments

by Decimus Laberius and Costas Panayotakis

Book Overview

This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is perhaps the most celebrated comic playwright of the late Republic, and the fragments of plays attributed to him comprise the overwhelming majority of the extant evidence for what we conventionally call 'the literary Roman mime'. The volume also includes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009073192
• ISBN13: 9781009073196
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 542 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"