A Companion to Terence (eBook)

Antony Augoustakis is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (2010) and Plautus' Mercator (2009). Ariana Traill is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Women and the Comic Plot in Menander (2008) and numerous articles on Greek and Roman comedy and its reception.

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

Antony Augoustakis and Ariana Traill

PART I Terence and Ancient Comedy 15

1. Terence and Greek New Comedy 17

Peter Brown

2. Terence and the Traditions of Roman New Comedy 33

George Fredric Franko

3. Terence and Non-Comic Intertexts 52

Alison Sharrock

4. Fabula Stataria: Language and Humor in Terence 69

Heather Vincent

5. Meter and Music 89

Timothy J. Moore

PART II Contexts and Themes 111

6. Terence and the Scipionic Grex 113

Daniel P. Hanchey

7. opera in bello, in otio, in negotio: Terence and Rome in the
160s bce 132

John H. Starks, Jr.

8. Religious Ritual and Family Dynamics in Terence 156

T.H.M. Gellar-Goad

9. Gender and Sexuality in Terence 175

Sharon L. James

10. Family and Household in the Comedies of Terence 195

Z.M. Packman

11. Masters and Slaves 211

Evangelos Karakasis

PART III The Plays 223

12. Andria 225

Robert Germany

13. Heauton Timorumenos 243

Eckard Lef èvre

14. Eunuchus 262

David M. Christenson

15. Phormio 281

Stavros Frangoulidis

16. Hecyra 295

Ortwin Knorr

17. Adelphoe 318

Ariana Traill

PART IV Reception 341

18. History of the Text and Scholia 343

Benjamin Victor

19. Terence in Latin Literature from the Second Century bce to
the Second Century ce 363

Roman Müller

20. Terence in Late Antiquity 380

Andrew Cain

21. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Christianizes Terence 397

Antony Augoustakis

22. ''Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to
him'': Terence in Early Modern England 410

Martine van Elk

23. mulier inopia et cognatorum neglegentia coacta: Thornton
Wilder's Tragic Take on The Woman of Andros 429

Mathias Hanses

24. Terence in Translation 446

John Barsby

25. Performing Terence (and Hrotsvit) Now 466

Mary-Kay Gamel

References 482

General Index 515

Index Locorum 523

"In this Volume, the editors have aimed to offer 'a wide-ranging guide to studying Terence's plays within the historical and social-political context in which they were produced'. Their goal has been realized- but neither fully nor without problems; and, although there is a wealth of information contextualizing the playright and his work, the notion that his plays were primarily comic strips designed for live performances should have been represented more strongly in the volume." (The Journal of Roman Studies, May 2016)