Hysterical Laughter: Four Ancient Comedies About Women is the first text to uniquely employ comedy as a vehicle to explore women, gender, and sexuality in Greek and Roman antiquity. Featuring new, engaging, and accessible translations by David Christenson of four of the finest classical comedies--Lysistrata (Aristophanes), Samia (Menander), Casina (Plautus), and Hecyra (Terence)--it provides instructors with an attractive and innovative way to explore the social and cultural dimensions of ancient theater and the construction of gender roles in...
Hysterical Laughter: Four Ancient Comedies About Women is the first text to uniquely employ comedy as a vehicle to explore women, gender, and...
This edition is designed to facilitate reading of Pseudolus, one of Plautus' most innovative and delightful plays and a lens into Roman slave society. It assumes no specialised knowledge of early Latin, Plautus' social-historical milieu, or ancient comedy and provides students with all the help needed to understand the Latin.
This edition is designed to facilitate reading of Pseudolus, one of Plautus' most innovative and delightful plays and a lens into Roman slave society....
