The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205?184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Moli??re to modern times. This second volume of a new Loeb edition of all twenty-one of Plautus's extant comedies presents Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, and Menaechmi with freshly edited texts, lively modern translations, introductions, and ample explanatory notes.
Author Biography
Wolfgang de Melo is Professor of Latin and Greek at Ghent University.
