Terence’s comedies featured archetypal characters such as boastful soldiers and clever slaves, exploring themes of loyalty, familial duty, and societal roles.

Terence, or Publius Terentius Afer, remains a significant figure in Roman literature, renowned for his elegant language, sophisticated plots, and nuanced characterizations across his six …

SOURCE: An introduction to The Comedies of Terence, translated by Frank O. Copley, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1967, pp. vii-xxi. Like the plays of his predecessor Plautus, all …

Dive deep into A. E. Housman's Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion

Terence’s play The Brothers is a translation and, therefore, Romanization of a play originally written by the Greek playwright Menander. A work of Roman New Comedy, the play pokes fun …

“Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff,” poem LXII of A Shropshire Lad, is a reflective piece often seen as Housman's defense of his poetic choices. As the collection nears its end, Housman uses this ...

The Eunuch is a play by Terence, a Roman playwright who lived during the second century BC. The Eunuch is a play that deals with a common theme for Roman comedy: a cunning slave …

In what degree of faithfulness Terence copied Menander—whether, as he states of the passage in the Adelphi taken from Diphilus, 'verbum de verbo' in the lovelier scenes (the description of the ...

This analysis focuses on the complexity of the father-son relationships which occupy the heart of the play—and the heart of much of Terence’s oeuvre.

Terence's deliberate adherence to his Greek models is basically different from the way in which Plautus used the Greek originals as raw material for his own creations, as well as from the way ...