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Category:	Ancient Theatre
Name:	Plautus
Birth Year:	c. 254 BCE
Death Year:	184 BCE
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus, comic playwright of the Roman Republic; the years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about 205 and 184 B.C.E. Twenty-one plays survive. Plautus's comedies, which are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature, are all adaptations of Greek models for a Roman audience. The characters remain in Greek settings, or perhaps a Greek setting imagined by a Roman. His most typical character is the clever slave who manipulates his master, undermining some of our conceptions of normal social relationships in the Roman world. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Plautus.] The Great Books: Plautus Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Plautus. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Plautus. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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