Terence: Andria

by Sander M. Goldberg (Editor)

As the first play of the Terentian corpus, Andria has always attracted a special level of attention. It was the first Roman comedy produced after antiquity (at Florence in 1476) and the first translated into English, and it has inspired writers from Jonson and Dryden to Thornton Wilder. It provides an excellent introduction to Terence 's particular style of comedy, noteworthy for its ambivalence in representing the perspectives of woman and slaves and its experiments with a secondary plot line. The commentary is designed both to help students with the basic linguistic and technical problems confronting inexperienced readers of Roman comedy and to open discussion of essential interpretive questions involving the play and its relation to the wider comic corpus, as well as the utility of comedy for furthering our understanding of the Roman world and its values.

310 pages, Hardcover

Published November 10, 2022

Reviews

[Maya Joelle]

Read in Latin with the help of Goldberg's annotations. Some vocabulary was unfamiliar to me but the amount of grammatical commentary in this text was just right for what I need help with at this stage. I think Plautus is funnier but I did enjoy reading it. Certainly interesting observations on human nature and relationships, but unfortunately I've been indelibly shaped by 21st century humor and don't find Roman comedy particularly appealing.

Now to reread Woman of Andros... (i always like a good dose of tragedy)