Terence: Andria

As the first play of the Terentian corpus, Andria has always attracted a special level of attention. It was the first Roman comedy produced after antiquity (at Florence in 1476) and the first translated into English, and it has inspired writers from Jonson and Dryden to Thornton Wilder. It provides an excellent introduction to Terence 's particular style of comedy, noteworthy for its ambivalence in representing the perspectives of woman and slaves and its experiments with a secondary plot line. The commentary is designed both to help students with the basic linguistic and technical problems confronting inexperienced readers of Roman comedy and to open discussion of essential interpretive questions involving the play and its relation to the wider comic corpus, as well as the utility of comedy for furthering our understanding of the Roman world and its values.

ISBN-13: 9781009200653

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 11-10-2022

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 5.67(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.83(d)

Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Sander M. Goldberg is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Classics at UCLA. He has been studying and teaching Roman comedy (and related subjects) for over forty years and has published extensively in the field, including three books dealing specifically with drama in its literary and social context and numerous articles (and reviews) in significant periodicals as well as chapters in Handbooks and Companions. He has received numerous fellowships over the years, including most recently one from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to study Roman performance practice, and for 2012-13 the Webster Research Fellowship at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction; P. Terenti Afri Andria; Commentary; Appendix I. Alternative Ending(s); Appendix II. The Greek Models; Appendix III. Cicero's Andria; Works Cited; Index.