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"Terence's Brothers was put on in Rome in 160 B.C. when 'captive Greece was capturing her ruffian conqueror and bringing style to barnyard Latium', when Cato the Elder, still vigorous at 74, was defending 'the ways of our Roman ancestors' with pen and voice, and fourteen years before the destruction of Carthage and Corinth which marked a new epoch in Roman history. It is the latest surviving example of comoedia palliata, and for sustained verve, variety, characterization, and substance it is perhaps the most accomplished of the genre as we know it, as well as a document of the blending of Greek and Roman not yet quite complete. The play deals with a perennial domestic problem - how fathers should relate to teenage children - and raises the wider question of ends and means in education. Latin text with facing-page translation.
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This is a very important work. It must be noticed not simply as an edition for young students, but as a challenge to most peoples received notions about Terence: his text, his metre, and his ways of dealing with his material. Everybody interested at all in New Comedy should acquire a copy at once."
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Terence's Brothers was put on at Rome in 160 BC. when 'captive Greece was capturing her ruffian conqueror and bringing style to barnyard Latium', when Cato the Elder, still vigorous at 74, was defending 'the ways of our Roman ancestors' with pen and voice, and fourteen years before the destruction of Carthage and Corinth which marked a new epoch in Roman history. It is the latest surviving example of the 'Greek-style Comedy' (Comoedia palliata), and for sustained verve, variety, characterization, and substance it is perhaps the most accomplished of the genre as we know it, as well as a document of the blending of Greek and Roman not yet quite complete. The play deals with a perennial domestic problem how fathers should relate to teenage children and raises the wider question of ends and means in education. Menander's standpoint and Terence's originality remain controversial. This edition puts the issues for the general reader, and complements commentaries for the student of Latin in the long tradition going back to Donatus by concentrating on the dramatic qualities of the piece and the texture of Terence's lithe verse-diction in relation to meaning.
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- PublisherAris & Phillips Ltd
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0856683159
- ISBN 13 9780856683152
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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The Brothers
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. \"Terence\'s Brothers was put on in Rome in 160 B.C. when \'captive Greece was capturing her ruffian conqueror and bringing style to barnyard Latium\', when Cato the Elder, still vigorous at 74, was defending \'the ways of our Roman ancestors\' with pen and voice, and fourteen years before the destruction of Carthage and Corinth which marked a new epoch in Roman history. It is the latest surviving example of comoedia palliata, and for sustained verve, variety, characterization, and substance it is perhaps the most accomplished of the genre as we know it, as well as a document of the blending of Greek and Roman not yet quite complete. The play deals with a perennial domestic problem - how fathers should relate to teenage children - and raises the wider question of ends and means in education. Latin text with facing-page translation. Seller Inventory # AMPLE0856683159
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1987, Aris & Phillips Ltd., viii 299pp, red cloth binding, pictorial dust jacket. Condition: small damp stain to bottom of front endpaper (rising 2cm up hinge and 3.5cm spread either side); pale marks to pages 107, 132 and 133 - not affecting legibility of text; occasional indent where pencil notes have been rubbed out, slight musty aroma. Dust jacket has crease to front lower corner, damp stain to tail of spine and shelf wear particularly to edges. Otherwise, this is offered as a sound, tight, well read but serviceable copy. Seller Inventory # 1167
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