Comedy and the Rise of Rome

by Matthew Leigh (Author), Matthew Leigh (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $78.34

  This is an original study of the plays of the two great Roman comic playwrights Plautus and Terence in the context of political and economic change in Rome in the third and second centuries BC. Matthew Leigh combines a close reading of individual texts with a theoretically sophisticated approach to Roman self-construction.

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  Paperback
  2005

  $70.31

  This is an original study of the plays of the two great Roman comic playwrights Plautus and Terence in the context of political and economic change in Rome in the third and second centuries BC. Matthew Leigh combines a close reading of individual texts with a theoretically sophisticated approach to Roman self-construction.