Titus Maccius Plautus Biography
Titus Maccius Plautus Plays
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS (d. 184 B.C.) The greatest Latin comic playwright and earliest Latin of whom substantial writings survive. Download minecraft pocket edition. Picasa 3 download for windows 10. Of the 130 plays attributed to him, the 21 that have come down from a second-century collection are certainly his. Modeled on plays by Menander, greatest of the Greek New Comedians, who wrote at the very end of the Golden Age of Athens, Plautus' comedies are not merely translated from the Greek, but also incorporate new material not only from other Middle and Late comedies but from Roman life as well. Nowhere is this combination clearer than in his treatment of homosexuality, which the Middle and Late Greek comedies, in marked contrast to Aristophanes' and others' Old Comedies, tended to avoid in favor of marriage and slapstick heterosexual street scenes. Plautus featured pederasts and pathics and portrayed relationships, primarily between masters and slaves, a dominance-submission pattern that was the normal practice in Rome, far removed from the mentor-disciple paradigm of Greek pederasty, which was theoretically (and often in practice) between upper-class males for pedagogic aims.