Rome and the Mysterious Orient by Plautus

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Summary

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. This title features three plays - "Weevil (Curculio)", "Iran Man (Persa)", and "Towelheads (Poenulus)" - by Plautus.

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Rome and the Mysterious Orient by Plautus

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. This title features three plays - Weevil (Curculio), Iran Man (Persa), and Towelheads (Poenulus) - by Plautus.
Amy Richlin, Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles, is author of The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor (revised edition, 1992), editor of Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome (1992), and coeditor, with Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, of Feminist Theory and the Classics (1993).
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ISBN 13 9780520242753
ISBN 10 0520242750
Title Rome and the Mysterious Orient
Author Plautus
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 2005-12-12
Number of pages 302
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.