Plautus was a roman playwright and his dates as best as we can tell are 255. Titus maccius plautus is the biggest roman comedy writer. He supposedly emigrated to rome to start up a shipping business and write plays on the side to earn extra income. Aspects of plautus originality in the asinaria volume 42 issue 1 j. The plays ending does not survive, though there are indications of how the plot is resolved in later summaries and a few. The following translation originally appeared on a website hosted by the university of richmond. Cappadox goes back into the temple again, this time to thank the god for a profitable.
Theyre clever, theyre theorically funny but practically not so much, and the second one is an unfinished work. Usually, the humorous characters in plautine plays are of low social standing. The title literally means the little pot, but some translators provide the pot of gold, and the plot revolves around a literal pot of gold which the miserly protagonist, euclio, guards zealously. Start your 48hour free trial to unlock this the pot of gold study. Plautus style, filled with folk talk and jokes, became a role model to many other writers. November 23rd aulularia miles gloriosus mostellaria pdf novay org. Curculio, also called the weevil, is a latin comedic play for the early roman theatre by titus maccius plautus. Plautus used puns, he played with words, or he gave the words another meaning.
Hide browse bar your current position in the text is marked in blue. The play, based on the aulularia of roman comic playwright plautus, recasts the ancient comic figure of the miser who is inhuman in his worship of money and all too human in his need for respect and affection. Amphitryo, asinaria, aulularia, bacchides, captivi by titus maccius. Project gutenberg 61,671 free ebooks 2 by titus maccius plautus. Aulularia is a latin play by the early roman playwright titus maccius plautus. Aspects of plautus originality in the asinaria the. Little is known for certain about the life and personality of plautus, who ranks with terence as one of the two great roman comic dramatists.
Euclios distress 9 at seeing any smoke escape from his house seems at least to suggest that plautus may have borrowed the. Maccius plautus, aulularia, or the concealed treasure. Amphitryo, asinaria, aulularia, bacchides, captivi by titus maccius plautus free ebook project gutenberg. He is also one of the earliest writers of musical theater. The social themes in plautus aulularia 311 pot of gold and, charging that fides has not kept faith and that it took a crow to save him, announces that he will hide it outside the city walls in a thick and lonely grove of silvanus, the woodland god, whom he trusts more. Phaedromus sends curculio a stock parasite character to borrow money. The pot of gold aulularia, the prisoners captivi, the brothers menaechmus menaechmi, the swaggering soldier miles gloriosus, and pseudolus. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel.
Story time just got better with prime book box, a subscription that delivers hand picked childrens books every 1, 2, or 3 months at 40% off list price. In curculio, phaedromus is in love with planesium, a slave girl belonging to the pimp cappadox. Very slender evidence connects the aulularia with some unknown play of menanders in which a miser is represented. Maccio plauto and a great selection of similar new, used and. Curculio, cappadox, and lyco emerge with planesium. Springer nature is making sarscov2 and covid19 research free. The business failed, but his plays made him famous. This helps the comedy overall, because lowerclass characters were often taken less seriously, and had to be less careful what they said. One of the supreme comic writers of the roman world, plautus c. Plautus classical and medieval literature criticism. Plautus simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Euclio is not a bad person, but he cannot cope with his fortune.
As that site is no longer online, i have resurrected the text here. Student performance of aulularia at the luther jenkins greek theater, university of richmond, april 1986. Auluaria by titus maccius plautus, a performance sponsored by the classical studies department at the luther jenkins greek theater, university of richmond, april 1992. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Plautuss broad humor, shown in some of the earliest surviving latin plays, reflects roman manners and contemporary life. Plauto, tito macio comedias i 3 aulularia biling e pdf. As for the greek aulularia, there is agreement that the orginal was, more likely than not, written by menander so plautus had 100 or more plays to choose from, an interesting thought in itselfwhere did he get the copies. Pdf on jan 1, 2008, lora l holland and others published euclios. The swaggering soldier, titus maccius plautus book summary. Warning the slavedealer that he will have to return the money if the girl is ever found to be free born, curculio leads her awayostensibly to the soldier but actually to phaedromus house.
The project gutenberg ebook of amphitryo, asinaria, aulularia, bacchides, captivi, by plautus titus maccius this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no. I actually read the second play in this book, aulularia, back in february, borrowing a friends copy. Hvalisavi vojnik by plautus 4 star ratings sljapkica rated it really liked it jun 03, return to book page. Not much is known about titus maccius plautus early life. The pot of gold or aulularia by plautus is a romantic roman comedy based on a lost new. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Nunc quoquo venias plus plaustrorum in aedibus videas quam ruri, quando ad villam veneris. The development of constructions as illustrated by plautus. Euclios distress 9 at seeing any smoke escape from his house seems at least to suggest that plautus may have borrowed the aulularia from menander. He worked as a stage worker, actor in rome and then he got himself into some debts and became a slave. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Titus macchius plautus wrote plays in ancient rome.
Asinaria, aulularia, bacchides, captivi by titus maccius plautus. Dictionary of greek and roman biography and mythologyplautus. He was probably born in sarsina a city in romagna around 254 bc. Would i dare tell an untrutli to a man like you under any circumstances. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Its main character is euclio, a man who has been plunged into a personal crisis by finding a pot of gold. Aulularia aris and phillips classical texts 9781910572382. Plautus, great roman comic dramatist, whose works, loosely adapted from greek plays, established a truly roman drama in the latin language. Titus maccius plautus was born in umbria before 250 bce.
1475 394 1158 545 48 1351 1014 1140 641 7 982 982 227 1132 1403 214 418 745 830 178 433 139 1298 1530 1398 1000 1055 528 805 423 986 758 1168 1481 239 1109