"Mostellaria" is one of Plautus' most lively plays. Probably based on a Greek original, Philemon's "Ghost," it concerns the scheming slave Tranio's attempts (including the invention of a haunted house) to disguise from his old master the sexual and financial prodigality of the latter's son. The complex plot of deceit and confusion is, in the way of the genre, finally resolved in reconciliation and forgiveness. This edition, first published in 1968, was conceived as a first reader in Roman comedy. Its introduction includes sections on Plautus, on the genre, on the play and its plot, on...
"Mostellaria" is one of Plautus' most lively plays. Probably based on a Greek original, Philemon's "Ghost," it concerns the scheming slave Tranio's...
ROMANCE, THE ART OF MOSAICS, AND BETRAYAL As an unpublished manuscript, MURDER IN MOSAIC won in the Amsterdam Book Festival. The third in the Straton trilogy, before Amanda Straton entrenches into a new life in Florida, she takes time to visit her parents and a friend in Washington, D.C. Then it's off to Italy to study mosaics. Unprepared she faces the dark force that pursued her in her youth. Evil returns with a vengeance. At the end, the ultimate question that remains, who will pay evil's demands?
ROMANCE, THE ART OF MOSAICS, AND BETRAYAL As an unpublished manuscript, MURDER IN MOSAIC won in the Amsterdam Book Festival. The third in the Straton ...