Plautus - Wikipedia
Titus Maccius Plautus [1] (/ ˈ p l ɔː t ə s /, PLAW-təs; c. 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety.
Plautus | Roman Playwright & Comedian | Britannica
Plautus was a great Roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from Greek plays, established a truly Roman drama in the Latin language. Little is known for certain about the life and personality of Plautus, who ranks with Terence …
Plautus - World History Encyclopedia
2016年1月4日 · Titus Maccius Plautus, better known simply as Plautus (actually a nickname meaning 'flatfoot'), was, between c. 205 and 184 BCE, a Roman writer of comedy plays, specifically the fabulae palliatae, which had a Greek-themed storyline.
Plautus - Encyclopedia.com
Plautus (ca. 254-ca. 184 B.C.) was a Roman writer. His theatrical genius, vitality, farcical humor, and control of the Latin language rank him as Rome's greatest comic playwright. During the 3d century B.C., Roman writers began to imitate the forms and contents of Greek literature.
414 Roman Comedy I (Plautus), Classical Drama and Theatre
Plautus' comedies revolve mostly around daily life and average people, superficially the stuff of Greek New Comedy as opposed to the politically oriented Old Comedy of the Classical Age or the spoofs of tragedy popular in post-classical Middle Comedy.
Titus Maccius Plautus | UNRV Roman History
Titus Maccius Plautus was one of ancient Rome's greatest playwrights. He was born in Sarsina, Umbria in about 254 BC. Little is known about his life, but it is believed that he worked as a stage carpenter as a young man.
Plautus summary | Britannica
Plautus , (born c. 254, Sarsina, Umbria?—died 184 bc), Roman comic playwright. Little is known for certain about his life, but tradition holds that he was associated with the theatre from an early age.
Plautus Timeline - World History Encyclopedia
Titus Maccius Plautus, better known simply as Plautus (actually a nickname meaning 'flatfoot'), was, between c. 205 and 184 BCE, a Roman writer of comedy plays, specifically the fabulae palliatae, which had a Greek-themed storyline.
Plautus - IMPERIUM ROMANUM
2021年11月23日 · Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) was born around 254 BCE in the town of Sarsina (now Saraceno) in Umbria. He was a Roman comedy writer, one of the oldest (next to Cato the Elder) Roman writers whose works have survived in larger fragments, and one of the two (next to Terentius) Roman comedians whose comedies we can read.
Who was Plautus? - King's College London
Plautus took the rather urbane and decorous Greek comedies and injected them with a great deal of vitality, comic fun, and vulgarity. Their generally high-minded and thoughtful characters are in his hands more vigourously drawn and cynically motivated.