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Plautus: Bacchides
John Barsby
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Description for Plautus: Bacchides
hardcover. 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. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 20. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
Series
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856682261
SKU
V9780856682261
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About John Barsby
edited with an introduction, translation anjd commentary by John Barsby
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