Playwrights
1. Livius Andronicus
2. Odusia
3. tragedies
Tarentum; Greek; Livius Salinator; freedman; grammaticus
translation of Odyssey; Saturnian verse
Achilles, Aegisthus, Aiax Mastigophorus, Equos Troianus, Hermonia,
Andromeda, Danae, Tereus
Gladiolus
“girl’s song” for Juno
Campania; 1st Punic War; plebeian; attacked Metelli; died in Utica
Romulus (founding); Clastidium (victory of Marcellus)
Hector Proficiscens, Iphigenia, Equos Troianus, Danae
Saturnian verse; 7 bks by grammarian Lampadio
Sarsina, Umbria; 21 plays
MYTH; impersonated gods & misunderstandings
father helps son in love only to become rivals
Euclio’s pot of gold stolen; ransomed for his daughter
twin sister whores; based on Menander play
ALL MALE CAST; 2 sons taken captive
old man & son both try to woo same girl
boy likes inappropriate girl but in end she was appropriate
WEEVIL; parasite swindles pimp & soldier; gets girl
slave helps boy w/ 2 women; one ends up being his sister
twins separated at birth; comedy of errors
merchant & father are rivals for girl
soldier Pyrgopolynices tricked by Palaestrio (slave)
slave helps boy w/ woman by saying house is haunted
slave impersonates a Persian to trick his owner pimp
Carthigenian lovers reunited to discover they’re cousins
slave cheats the pimp Ballio
pimp shipwrecked on beach w/ girl, her father, & her love
father wants his daughters to divorce their husbands
broke boy helped by friends before father learns of debt
Phronesium cheats 3 lovers
Milan (Gaul); Plocium (necklace) based on Menander
Carthage; slave; Scipionic Circle; upper class language
4. palliata
5. partheneion
6. Gnaeus Naevius
7. praetextae
8. conthurnatae
9. Bellum Punicum
10. Plautus
11. Amphitruo
12. Asinaria
13. Aulularia
14. Bacchides
15. Captivi
16. Casina
17. Cistellaria
18. Curculio
19. Epidicus
20. Menaechmi
21. Mercator
22. Miles Gloriosus
23. Mostellaria
24. Persa
25. Poenulus
26. Pseudolus
27. Rudens
28. Stichus
29.Trinummus
30. Truculentus
31. Caecilius Statius
32. Terentius Afer
Menander; girl brought up as whore ends up w/ guy when they discover she was free born
33. Andria
34. Hecyra
Men. & Apol. of C.; mother-in-law helps couple deal w/ pregnacy
35. Heautontimoroumenos
Menander; father punishes self for driving son into army
36. Eunuchus
Menander; guy disguises as eunuch to get girl
37. Phormio
Apollodorus of Carystus; parasite helps brothers get girls
38. Adelphoe
Menander & Diphilus; 2 brothers reared differently
39. Marcus Pacuvius
Brundisium; nephew of Ennius; painter; died in Tarentum
40. Armorum Iudicium
Ajax (Greater) & Odysseus argue over Achilles’ armour
41. Dulorestes
Orestes disguises himself as slave to avenge Agamemnon
42. Iliona
Priam’s eldest switches bro Polydorus for son Diphilus in murder
43. Niptra
BATH; Eurycleia washes Ody.’s feet before Telegonus kills him
44. Teucer
Teucer banished for returning to Salamis w/out bro Ajax (Greater)
45. other tragedies
Atalanta; Medus; Pentheus; Periboea; Antiope; Chryses; Hermiona
46. praetexta
Paullus; tells of L. Aemilius Paullus’ victory at Pydna
47. Accius
Pisaurum; attacked satirist Lucilius
48. tragedies
Armorum Iudicium; Astyanax; Atreus; Bacchae; Epinausimache;
Tereus; Hecuba; Medea; Melanippus; Myrmidones; Nyctegresia;
Philocteta; Phoenissae; Telephus; Troades
49. praetextae
Brutus (Brutus & Tarquins); Decius/ Aeneadae (Decius Mus)
50. other works
Didascalia (spelling); Sotadicorum Liber (cal.); Pragmatica; Parerga
(Hesiod’s Erga); Praxidicus (agri.)
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