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Plautus: Bacchides (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) - Softcover

Barsby, John A.

 
9780856682278: Plautus: Bacchides (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0856682276 ISBN 13: 9780856682278
Publisher: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

Plautus' Bacchides is one of the best and most typical of his plays which in its treatment of character, theme and dialogue provides an excellent introduction to Plautus. Since the rediscovery of a passage from its Greek model, Menander's Dis Exapaton, it is now in the fore-front of scholarly discussion as direct comparisons can now be made of style and methods. The line-by-line verse translation aims to reproduce the sense and also to represent Plautus' linguistic liveliness and metrical variety, while the commentary explores the literary and dramatic qualities of the play in the light of modern scholarship. The Dis Exapaton fragment is given in text and translation. Latin text with facing-page translation, introduction and commentary.

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About the Author

edited with an introduction, translation anjd commentary by John Barsby

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Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd
Publication date
1986
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0856682276
ISBN 13 
9780856682278
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
202