Book Summary. Euclio finds a pot of gold and he is a cheap old man who hides his gold from everyone. In the meantime Lyconides and Phaedria fell in love. Megadorus wants to settle down and he goes to Euclio and asks for his daughter’s hand. Euclio said yes just because Megadorus didn’t ask for dowry. Aulularia - Plot Summary Plot Summary Lars Familiaris, the household deity of Euclio, an old man with a marriageable daughter named Phaedria, begins the play with a prologue about how he allowed Euclio to discover a pot of gold buried in his house.
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Plautus's broad humor, shown in some of the earliest surviving Latin plays, reflects Roman manners and contemporary life. This briliant collection includes: The Pot of Gold (Aulularia), The Prisoners (Captivi), The Brothers Menaechmus (Menaechmi), The Swaggering Soldier (Miles Gloriosus), and Pseudolus.
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Published January 1st 1989 by Addison Wesley Publishing Company (first published June 1988)
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Oct 03, 2015Suzanne rated it liked it
[trigger warning for discussion of rape]
In which rape in used as a plot device and treated as a minor insult (against the girl's father, rather than the girl herself). But it's okay because she gets to marry her rapist and live happily ever after (according to the men).
It's interesting how the scholarship on Plautus either points out how shocking and uncomfortable it is for modern audiences that rape would be used so casually as a plot device and the victims feelings utterly disregarded (yeah ri..more
In which rape in used as a plot device and treated as a minor insult (against the girl's father, rather than the girl herself). But it's okay because she gets to marry her rapist and live happily ever after (according to the men).
It's interesting how the scholarship on Plautus either points out how shocking and uncomfortable it is for modern audiences that rape would be used so casually as a plot device and the victims feelings utterly disregarded (yeah ri..more
Nov 17, 2012Drianne rated it really liked it
Student edition with facing commentary and vocab. Text is altered for spelling and some endings (-ier replaced with -i, e.g.). Notes are mostly helpful.
Fun play, but I would think the lack of an ending would be very disheartening for a student who'd slogged through the whole thing.
Fun play, but I would think the lack of an ending would be very disheartening for a student who'd slogged through the whole thing.
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