Table Of ContentA COMPANION TO TERENCE
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A COMPANION
TO TERENCE
Edited by
Antony Augoustakis and Ariana Traill
Associate Editor
John Thorburn
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
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1. Terence–Criticism and interpretation. 2. Latin drama (Comedy)–History and criticism. 3. Theater–
History–To 500. 4. Theater–Rome. I. Augoustakis, Antony, editor of compilation. II. Traill, Ariana,
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Contents
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.
vi Contents
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 Lefèvre
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
Contents vii
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
Contributors
Antony Augoustakis is Associate also edited a collection of essays Greek
Professor of Classics at the University and Roman Drama: Translation and
of Illinois (Urbana–Champaign, Performance (J.B. Metzler, 2002).
Illinois, USA) and editor of the jour- He is currently working on a history
nalIllinois Classical Studies. He is the of the Otago Classics Department.
author of Motherhood and the Other:
Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Peter Brown is an Emeritus Fellow of
Epic (Oxford, 2010) and Plautus’ Trinity College, Oxford University
Mercator (Bryn Mawr, 2009). He has (United Kingdom) and a member of
edited the Brill Companion to Silius the Advisory Board of the Archive of
Italicus (Leiden, 2010), Ritual and Performances of Greek and Roman
Religion in Flavian Epic (Oxford, Drama. He has published extensively
2013), and co-edited with Carole on Greek and Roman drama, and his
Newlands Statius’ Siluae and the translation of the Comedies of Terence
Poetics of Intimacy (Arethusa, 2007). appeared in the Oxford World’s
He is currently working on a com- Classics series in January, 2008. He is
mentary on Statius’ Thebaid Book 8 co-editor with Suzana Ograjenšek
(Oxford) and the Oxford Readings in of Ancient Drama in Music for the
Flavian Epic, co-edited with Helen Modern Stage (Oxford, 2010).
Lovatt (Oxford).
Andrew Cain is Associate Professor
John Barsby is Emeritus Professor of of Classics at the University of
Classics at the University of Otago Colorado (Boulder, CO, USA). He is
(Dunedin, New Zealand). He has the author of The Letters of Jerome:
published editions of Ovid’s Amores I Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis, and the
(Oxford, 1974), Plautus’ Bacchides Construction of Christian Authority
(Aris & Phillips, 1986), and Terence’s in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2009),
Eunuchus (Cambridge, 1999) and is St. Jerome, Commentary on Galatians
the editor of the new Loeb edition (Catholic University of America
of Terence (Harvard, 2001). He has Press, 2010), Jerome’s Epitaph on
Contributors ix
Paula: A Commentary on the Nebenhandlung: Theater, Metatheater
Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae, with und Gattungsbewusstein in der
an Introduction, Text, and Translation römischen Komödie (Stuttgart, 1997)
(Oxford, 2013), and Jerome and the and of Roles and Performances in
Monastic Clergy: A Commentary on Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (Stuttgart,
Letter 52 to Nepotian, with an 2001). His latest monograph is
Introduction, Text, and Translation Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches
(Brill, 2013). He also has edited to Magic in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Jerome of Stridon: His Life, Writings, (Berlin, 2008).
and Legacy (Ashgate, 2009) as well
as The Power of Religion in Late George Fredric Franko is Professor of
Antiquity (Ashgate, 2009). Classical Studies at Hollins University
(Roanoke, Virginia, USA). He holds
David M. Christenson is Professor degrees from the College of William
of Classics at the University of Arizona and Mary and Columbia University.
(Tucson, AZ, USA). He is the author Although a generalist, much of his
of an edition with commentary of scholarly work has been on Plautus.
Plautus’s Amphitruo (Cambridge,
2000), and is currently working on a Mary-Kay Gamel is Professor of
new edition of Plautus’s Pseudolus Classics, Comparative Literature,
(Cambridge) and a book on Roman and Theater Arts at the University
comedy for I.B. Tauris Publishers’ of California (Santa Cruz, CA, USA),
Understanding Classics series. He and has been involved in staging
has published two volumes of transla- twenty-six productions of ancient and
tions, Roman Comedy: Five Plays by medieval drama, many in her own
Plautus and Terence (2010) and Four translations and versions. She has
Plays by Plautus: Casina, Amphitryon, written widely on ancient drama in
Captivi, Pseudolus (2008), both with performance, and is completing a
Focus Publishing, and his collection, book on definitions of authenticity in
Four Ancient Comedies About Women: staging this drama. She received the
Lysistrata, Samia, Hecyra, Casina, is 2009 Scholarly Outreach Award from
forthcoming in 2013 (Oxford). the American Philological Association.
Stavros Frangoulidis is Professor T.H.M. Gellar-Goad is the Teacher-
of Latin at Aristotle University of Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow in
Thessaloniki (Greece). He has been Classical Languages at Wake Forest
co-organizer of several RICAN con- University (Winston-Salem, NC,
ferences (devoted to the study of the USA). He has published on Plautus
Ancient Novel) and co-editor of the and Roman religion, and holds
relevant proceedings (published as degrees from the University of
Ancient Narrative Supplementa). He North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
is the author of Handlung und from North Carolina State University.
x Contributors
His other major research interests are Classical Studies at UC Santa
Lucretius and Roman satire. Cruz, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature at UC
Robert Germany is Assistant Berkeley. She is Associate Professor
Professor of Classics at Haverford of Classics at the University of North
College (Haverford, PA, USA). He Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC, USA).
is the author of “The Politics of She has published articles on gender,
Roman Comedy” in the forthcoming Latin poetry, and Roman comedy,
Cambridge Companion to Roman including Learned Girls and Male
Comedy and has a forthcoming Persuasion (2003), a study of Roman
monograph entitled Mimetic Conta- love elegy. She is presently complet-
gion: Art and Artifice in Terence’s ing a major book project on women
Eunuchus. His next project is a study in New Comedy.
of the unity of time in ancient drama.
Evangelos Karakasis is Assistant
Daniel P. Hanchey is Assistant Professor of Latin at the University
Professor of Classics at Baylor of Ioannina (Greece). He is the author
University (Waco, TX, USA). He ofTerence and the Language of Roman
has published several articles on Comedy (Cambridge, 2005), Song
Cicero, and is currently working on a Exchange in Roman Pastoral (Berlin,
larger project focusing on the ideas 2011), and of several articles on
of memory and social/commercial Roman comedy, elegy and pastoral.
exchange in Cicero’s dialogues.
Ortwin Knorr is Associate Professor
Mathias Hanses is a Doctoral Student of Classics at Willamette University
in Classics at Columbia University (Salem, OR, USA), Chair of its
(NY, USA) and holds Master’s degrees Classical Studies Department, and
in both Classics (M.Phil., Columbia; Director of its Center for Ancient
M.A., University of Illinois) and Studies and Archaeology. Trained in
American Studies (University of Göttingen, Heidelberg, and Berkeley,
Münster, Germany). He has published he received his Ph.D. from the
on political bias in Roman historio- University of Göttingen in Germany.
graphy, the Classics in the American He is the author of Verborgene
Revolution, and the History of Kunst: Argumentationsstruktur und
Classical Scholarship. In New York, he Buchaufbau in den Satiren des Horaz
is preparing a dissertation on “The Life (Hildesheim, 2004) and articles on
of Comedy after the Death of Plautus,” Terence, Plautus, Horace, and early
tracing the Romans’ creative engage- Christian writers.
ment with the comic heritage from
Terence to Seneca (and beyond). Eckard Lefèvre is Professor Emeritus
of Classics at the Albert-Ludwigs-
Sharon L. James earned B.A. Universität at Freiburg (Germany). He
degrees in Spanish Literature and holds degrees from Christian-Albrechts-
