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

September 9: 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. Plautus, Double Bind (Menaechmi)

• How is Plautus like us? Influence and similarities
• How is Plautus Roman?
• A translator's perspective: Douglass Parker

III. For Tuesday: Questions to think about when reading Terence, The Brothers

• How is this play like and unlike Plautus' Double Bind?
• Demea and Micio have opposite views about education. Who do you think is right? Who would a Roman of Terence' s day think is right?

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