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Funny Words in Plautine Comedy
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Michael Fontaine
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Combining textual and literary evidence, this book argues that many Plautine jokes, puns, and names of characters were misunderstood in antiquity. By examining
Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood Story
Language: en
Pages: 520
Authors: Martin Worthington
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-29 - Publisher: Routledge

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This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, u
Plautine Trends
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Ioannis N. Perysinakis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-29 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Plautine Trends: Studies in Plautine Comedy and its Reception, a collective volume published as a Festschrift in honour of Prof. D. Raios (University of Ioannin
The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence
Language: en
Pages: 427
Authors: Mathias Hanses
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-10 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in t
A Companion to Plautus
Language: en
Pages: 512
Authors: Dorota Dutsch
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-24 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights from leading scholars A Companion to Pl