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- ISBN 9783110181678
- Weight: 526g
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2005
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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To what extent is Roman comedy dependent on the Greek? The author pursues this old controversy using a comprehensive study of the figure of the Parasite. The Parasite, stemming from the Greek socio-historical context and at first an alien phenomenon for Roman society, itself reflects the historical literary relationship of Roman comedy (located in a Greek milieu) to its Attic precursors.
By investigating the development of the figure of the Parasite on the Roman stage, Andrea Antonsen-Resch gains new insights into the degree to which the relevant plays are dependent on Greek models. One result is to demonstrate that Plautus and Terence follow Greek comedy to a far greater extent than has often been thought.
Andrea Antonsen-Resch was a Research Fellow in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Bern from 1997-2003.
