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Paperback Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus Book

ISBN: 0520242750

ISBN13: 9780520242753

Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus

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Still funny after two thousand years, the Roman playwright Plautus wrote around 200 B.C.E., a period when Rome was fighting neighbors on all fronts, including North Africa and the Near East. These three plays--originally written for a wartime audience of refugees, POWs, soldiers and veterans, exiles, immigrants, people newly enslaved in the wars, and citizens--tap into the mix of fear, loathing, and curiosity with which cultures, particularly Western...

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I bought this textbook for school. It truly is an outstanding reference textbook. I recommend it for all students of the classics and Ancient History.
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