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Comedy and the Rise of Rome Leigh, Matthew (, Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford)
Comedy and the Rise of Rome
Leigh, Matthew (, Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford)
Presents a study of the plays of the two great Roman comic playwrights Plautus and Terence in the context of political and economic change in Rome in the third and second centuries BC. This book adopts a historicist approach that concentrates on their effect on a contemporary audience.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 19, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199266760 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 145 × 223 × 17 mm · 497 g |
| Language | English |