Description
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.
Helps the student to read the Latin text with understanding while appreciating it as a play.
About the Author
Sander M. Goldberg is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Classics at UCLA. He has been studying and teaching Roman comedy (and related subjects) for over forty years and has published extensively in the field, including three books dealing specifically with drama in its literary and social context and numerous articles (and reviews) in significant periodicals as well as chapters in Handbooks and Companions. He has received numerous fellowships over the years, including most recently one from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to study Roman performance practice, and for 2012-13 the Webster Research Fellowship at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London.
Reviews
'The Commentary is of a very high quality. In addition to ensuring that matters of dramaturgy are constantly and fully dealt with, changes of scene or act being notably well handled (there is a good example at [IV.i], lines 625-83) G. is alive to every nuance of Terence's Latinity and style ... Any student who is called upon to work on this play will assuredly find all (s)he needs in this outstanding and authoritative edition.' Colin Leach, Classics for All
Book Information
ISBN 9781009200660
Author Sander M. Goldberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 306
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 400g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 17mm
Helps the student to read the Latin text with understanding while appreciating it as a play.
About the Author
Sander M. Goldberg is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Classics at UCLA. He has been studying and teaching Roman comedy (and related subjects) for over forty years and has published extensively in the field, including three books dealing specifically with drama in its literary and social context and numerous articles (and reviews) in significant periodicals as well as chapters in Handbooks and Companions. He has received numerous fellowships over the years, including most recently one from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to study Roman performance practice, and for 2012-13 the Webster Research Fellowship at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London.
Reviews
'The Commentary is of a very high quality. In addition to ensuring that matters of dramaturgy are constantly and fully dealt with, changes of scene or act being notably well handled (there is a good example at [IV.i], lines 625-83) G. is alive to every nuance of Terence's Latinity and style ... Any student who is called upon to work on this play will assuredly find all (s)he needs in this outstanding and authoritative edition.' Colin Leach, Classics for All
Book Information
ISBN 9781009200660
Author Sander M. Goldberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 306
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 400g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 17mm
