What a nice intro to Terence for new readers! It often seems hard to see why so many in antiquity preferred his comedy to that of the rollicking fun of Plautus, but so they did.
And on that note, some may be interested in a very unusual playwright who followed in his train. In the 10th century, a German nun named Hrosvitha (among other spellings) composed six Christian comedies in Latin in the style of Terence (rather than Plautus). "Dulcitius" is the one I remember reading a long time ago and still is, I believe, considered her best. Check her out! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha
What a nice intro to Terence for new readers! It often seems hard to see why so many in antiquity preferred his comedy to that of the rollicking fun of Plautus, but so they did.
And on that note, some may be interested in a very unusual playwright who followed in his train. In the 10th century, a German nun named Hrosvitha (among other spellings) composed six Christian comedies in Latin in the style of Terence (rather than Plautus). "Dulcitius" is the one I remember reading a long time ago and still is, I believe, considered her best. Check her out! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha
Wow! Fascinating!