CMRS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Scipionic Circle

• School: U of S
• Department: Classical Medieval Renaissance
• Course: CMRS 110
• Professor: Porter John

Document Summary

What falls from that is the notion of a saturnalian type comedy which involves these farsicle inversions. The slaves or the wife towering over the man. 166-160 romans have gone from their initial experiments which changed the greek into italian comedies to terence. Terence was originally a slave from africa and then he adopted a roman name. Contaminatio sub plot used to create a double plot. Demimond not an actual prostitute she is the sister of a women who turned to prostitution. She is a nobody, her sister if a prostitute but she and pamphilus have come together without the traditional rape" that we see in other plays.