Terence Publius
Terence refined Roman comedy with greater psychological depth and more elegant Latin than Plautus, drawing directly on Menander. His six surviving comedies were canonical school texts throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Works
- The BrothersRoman comedy of two quarreling brothers and conflicts over family honor
- PhormioRoman farce of a parasitic soldier and romantic entanglements unfold
- The Self-TormentorRoman comedy where a youth torments himself with jealousy and regret
- The EunuchRoman comedy of a eunuch slave entangled in romantic confusion and pursuit
- AndriaRoman comedy of love and recognition where a young man courts a slave