Miles Gloriosus Book

INTRODUCTION

GREEK DRAMA

Greek Tragedy

Origins (Attic and Dorian) of Comedy

Old, Middle, and New Attic Comedy

ROMAN DRAMA

Native Italic drama

Earliest Latin writers of drama

Plautus' life

Plautus' plays: dates, Greek tone, contaminatio

Roman drama after Plautus

Later influence of Roman comedy

STAGE AND PRODUCTION

Greek theaters

Roman theaters and stage setting

Production: occasions, actors, costumes, music (cantica and diuerbia), instruments

Act and scene divisions, didascaliae, argumenta, prologues

The Miles: date, Greek original, plot, unified by Palaestrio, moralizing passages, entrances and exits, Roman allusions, later influence

METERS

Rhythm, ictus and accent, length of syllables, metrical substitution, metrical feet, caesura and diaeresis

Trochaic septenarius

Iambic senarius and septenarius

Anapaestic septenarius

Index of meters

LANGUAGE

General

Prosody: accent and ictus, elision, prodelision of es and est, crasis, hiatus, synizesis, iambic shortening, suppression of final -ĕ, final -s need not make position, shift of ictus on the same forms

Words borrowed from Greek

Poetic devices: alliteration, assonance, wordplay, metaphors

Constructions: genitives, parataxis, parenthetical words, directional adverbs in -ō, fui for sum in perfect passive

Stem variations: -ö- for -ë-, -ei- for -1-, -1for 4-, -ü- for 4-, -cl-/-pl- for -eul-/-pul-, -ös and -óm for -as and -urn, deuces and cassabant, ap-/op- for ab-lob-

Case forms of declensions: mers and lacte, -at for -ae, -urn for -orum, -din the ablative and accusative

Pronouns: intensive endings, forms of is, quis feminine, qui ablative and adverb, demonstratives with -ce, ecce, ecquis

Verb stems: contracted perfects, -ss- in perfect, -s- in future and perfect, aio,fio

Verbal endings: -ier in passive infinitive, -ibo in future, dic, due, fac, and fer, cëdó, -i- in perfect. c-cm. Forms of sum.

TEXT

Manuscripts and text of Plautus

Editions on which this edition is based

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUGGESTIONS

Bibliography

General

Translations

Theater

New Comedy

Roman comedy

Plautine chronology

Plautus' originality

Dramatic technique

Language

Meter

Manuscripts

Later influence

TEXT AND NOTES