CMRS 110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ludi Plebeii, Megalesia, Ludi Apollinares

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

Document Summary

Short writing assignment #2: read terence"s girl from andros. a. This assignment is due at the beginning of class on. It will account for 10% of your mark: terence. Terence"s dates (c. 190/85: place him approximately a generation after plautus. Terence is much closer in spirit to menander, to whom he regularly turns for his greek model. His works are more sedate and refined, presenting a gentle comedy of manners with an emphasis on character and on ethical/social themes. Like menander, his plays are very prosaic: 52% of his lines are composed in spoken meters and there are few songs. Slapstick either verbal or physical is also much reduced. As opposed to plautus" various stand-up routines and comic shticks, terence presents an organic plot and relatively realistic situations. Plautus" two-dimensional comic figures, terence"s stock characters are fleshed out: as in.