For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstrea

This book explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman Comedy. "The very esse

This book provides the most complete and definitive study of Roman comedy. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-d

Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry.

This book offers a new explanation of how the plays of Plautus and Terence worked as musical theatre.