CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome (Unique # 30270)

September 7: Plautus, Double Bind

I: Lingua Latina

• Salvete, Salve
• Quid agitis?, Quid agis? optime, bene, satis bene, male
• Romam a principio reges habuerunt (Tacitus)
• vae victis (Livy)
• Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque (Ennius)
• Carthago delenda est (Cato the Elder)
• prandi, potavi, scortum accubui (Plautus)

II. Reminder of syllabus, assignments (http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/)

III. The Expansion of Rome through 146 BCE, continued
Maps

IV. Plautus, Double Bind (Menaechmi)

• Background and performance conditions
• The play

1. Characters (Clueless 1 and 2, Diddley, Smug, Dovey, Loveykins, Antiquides, Dr. Klyster)
2. Plot

Images to Accompany Discussion 4

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