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The Comedies of Terence

Terence

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These six comedies, adapted from Greek plays of the fourth century BC, tell of young men in love with the wrong women, fathers anxious about their sons…

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Author
Terence
Category
Drama
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

These six comedies, adapted from Greek plays of the fourth century BC, tell of young men in love with the wrong women, fathers anxious about their sons, clever slaves and lost daughters found at last: The Girl from Andros, The Self-Tormentor, The Eunuch, Phormio, The Mother-in-Law and The Brothers, which asks whether a son is better raised strictly or gently. They contain the famous line 'I am human, and I think nothing human alien to me'.

Context and significance

Terence (about 190–159 BC), born in North Africa and brought to Rome as a slave before he was freed, wrote in an elegant Latin that made his plays school texts for nearly two thousand years. This is Henry T. Riley's literal prose translation. Compare the comedies of Plautus.

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