Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus

Name: 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520242750

ISBN13:9780520242753

Release Date:December 2005

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:302 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"

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