A Companion to Terence

by Augoustakis, Antony; Traill, Ariana

• ISBN13: 9781405198752
• ISBN10: 1405198753
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-06-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars in the field that address, in a single volume, several key issues in interpreting Terence offering a detailed study of Terence's plays and situating them in their socio-historical context, as well as documenting their reception through to present day The first comprehensive collection of essays on Terence in English, by leading scholars in the field Covers a range of topics, including both traditional and modern concerns of gender, race, and reception Features a wide-ranging but interconnected series of essays that offer new perspectives in interpreting Terence Includes an introduction discussing the life of Terence, its impact on subsequent studies of the poet, and the question of his ethnicity

Author Biography

Antony Augoustakis is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (2010) and Plautus' Mercator (2009).

Ariana Traill is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Women and the Comic Plot in Menander (2008) and numerous articles on Greek and Roman comedy and its reception.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Antony Augoustakis and Ariana Traill

PART I TERENCE AND ANCIENT COMEDY

1. Terence and Greek New Comedy
Peter Brown

2. Terence and the Traditions of Roman New Comedy
George Fredric Franko

3. Terence and Non-Comic Intertexts
Alison Sharrock

4. Fabula Stataria: Language and Humor in Terence
Heather Vincent

5. Meter and Music
Timothy J. Moore

PART II CONTEXTS AND THEMES

6. Terence and the Scipionic Grex
Daniel P. Hanchey

7. opera in bello, in otio, in negotio: Terence and Rome in the 160s BCE
John H. Starks, Jr.

8. Religious Ritual and Family Dynamics in Terence
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad

9. Gender and Sexuality in Terence
Sharon L. James
10. Family and Household in the Comedies of Terence
Z.M. Packman

11. Masters and Slaves
Evangelos Karakasis

PART III THE PLAYS

12. Andria
Robert Germany

13. Heauton Timorumenos
Eckard Lefèvre

14. Eunuchus
David M. Christenson

15. Phormio
Stavros Frangoulidis

16. Hecyra
Ortwin Knorr

17. Adelphoe
Ariana Traill

PART IV RECEPTION

18. History of the Text and Scholia
Benjamin Victor

19. Terence in Latin literature from the Second Century BCE to the Second Century CE
Roman Müller

20. Terence in Late Antiquity
Andrew Cain

21. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Christianizes Terence
Antony Augoustakis

22. ‘Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him’: Terence in Early Modern England
Martine van Elk

23. mulier inopia et cognatorum neglegentia coacta: Thornton Wilder’s Tragic Take on The Woman of Andros
Mathias Hanses

24. Terence in Translation
John Barsby

25. Performing Terence (and Hrotsvit) Now
Mary-Kay Gamel

General Index

Index Locorum