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Tuesday, July 4, 2017

200 BC-Andria, Heauton Timorumenos, and Eunuchus

Andria (EnglishThe Girl from Andros) is a Roman comedy adapted by Terence from a Greek play by Menander. It was the first play by Terence to be presented publicly, and was performed in 166 BC during the Ludi Megalenses.[1] It became the first of Terence's plays to be performed post-antiquity, in Florence in 1476. It was adapted by Machiavelli, whose Andria was likewise the author's first venture into playwriting, and was first translated into English by the Welsh writer Morris Kyffin in 1588.



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Eunuchus (The Eunuch) is a comedy written by the Roman playwright Terence featuring a complex plot of familial misunderstanding.[1] It is a rewrite of one written by Menander in Greek.[2]



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Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor) is a play written by Publius Terentius Afer, known in English as "Terence", a dramatist of the Roman Republic. The play has presented academics with some problems. Firstly it is not entirely clear whether Heauton Timorumenos is Terence's second or third play. More importantly, due to the scant survival of Menander's play of the same name, there is no simple way to judge how much Terence's version is translation and how much is invention.[1] It is set in a village in the countryside of Attica.



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