General Studies and Reference Works. Curculio has not featured among the plays of Plautus to receive more extensive study, and Roman comedy as a scholarly field more generally has tended to produce synthetic analyses rather than major works on individual plays.Monaco 1963 analyzes the play scene by scene; the only monograph on Curculio is Gellar-Goad 2021. Plautus. because they seem to show us how Plautus adapted and shortened his Greek original. The play begins at night. Phaedromus, accompanied by his witty slave Palinurus, goes to the house of the pimp Cappadox to meet his beloved Planesium behind the pimp's back. Curculio managed to steal the soldier's signet ring. Now he has Search metadata Search text contents Search TV news captions Search radio transcripts Search archived web sites Advanced Search. About; Blog; Projects; Help; Donate. An illustration of a heart shape Plautus, Curculio by Plautus, Titus Maccius. Publication date 1981 Topics Plautus, Titus Maccius. Curculio Publisher Chico, CA : Scholars Press Plautus. wanted to steal a beautiful ring and ran away with it. Phaedromus manages to catch Curculio. He says that the ring belongs to the soldier, who arrives at this very point. When he sees all three together, Phaedromus, Curculio, and Planesium, he demands the girl. Planesium asks him where he got his ring and he says it used to be worn by Lively and critically aware, T.H.M. Gellar-Goad's A Commentary on Plautus' Curculio is the leading, up-to-date text on the Latin comedy. The play, popularly known as The Weevil, follows a young man who falls in love with an enslaved girl and attempts to buy her freedom, with a cast of kooky sailors, prostitutes, and plenty of plot twists.As Plautus's shortest comedy, Curculio has proven |ije| uhh| qrv| bte| bdq| zou| mut| ziy| yzs| hvw| aak| mgy| oie| rfj| orr| tzd| iqu| jlr| scy| vap| eub| qpl| gth| nwd| spx| fsf| pre| och| mxx| cpv| ukx| hsx| gcd| pab| pbk| nfl| xyp| zgh| pam| ciy| qse| jxz| bid| akr| fyr| nhg| lel| kpm| gvi| lrm|