BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD t h e e d i tor s A C O M PA N IO N TO A COMPANION TO A C O M P A N I O N T O Antony Augoustakis is Associate Professor of terence terence E Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana- D Champaign. He is the author of Motherhood and terence the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic Contributors to this volume: I EDITED BY T antony augoustakis (2010) and Plautus’ Mercator (2009). E and ariana traill Antony Augoustakis, John Barsby, Peter Brown, Andrew Cain, D Ariana Traill is Associate Professor of Classics David M. Christenson, Stavros Frangoulidis, George Fredric Franko, at the University of Illinois at Urbana- A A Companion to Terence offers the first Champaign. She is the author of Women and the Mary-Kay Gamel, T.H.M. Gellar-Goad, Robert Germany, B comprehensive collection of essays on Terence Comic Plot in Menander (2008) and numerous Daniel P. Hanchey, Mathias Hanses, Sharon L. James, Y EDITED BY Antony Augoustakis in English. It includes a detailed study of C articles on Greek and Roman Comedy and its Evangelos Karakasis, Ortwin Knorr, Eckard Lefèvre, Timothy J. Moore, Terence’s plays, situating them in their socio- a and Ariana Traill reception. Roman Müller, Z.M. Packman, Alison Sharrock, John H. Starks, Jr., tO historical context and exploring their reception Ariana Traill, Martine van Elk, Benjamin Victor, Heather Vincent u from the Classical through late antiquity, the geM Middle Ages, the Renaissance, to present-day literature and performance. or P ALSO AVAIL ABLE IN THIS SERIES: ueA Each chapter discusses key issues in Terence, s including Terence’s relationship with his N tn Greco-Roman models, his language and style, the question of performance and dramatic a I technique, and the socio-political background kcO that shapes the themes, characters, structures, i and cultural-political concerns. seN a A Companion to Terence is a useful research tool n T for the growing number of scholars, students, and critics of Terence and Roman Comedy. d O t r a i l l A CompAnion to terenCe BLACKWeLL CompAnionS to tHe AnCient WorLD This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. 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If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to Terence / edited by Antony Augoustakis and Ariana Traill ; associate editor John Thorburn. pages cm. – (Blackwell companions to the ancient world ; 103) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4051-9875-2 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-118-30199-9 (epub) – ISBN 978-1-118-30197-5 1. Terence–Criticism and interpretation. 2. Latin drama (Comedy)–History and criticism. 3. Theater– History–To 500. 4. Theater–Rome. I. Augoustakis, Antony, editor of compilation. II. Traill, Ariana, 1969– editor of compilation. III. Thorburn, John E., editor of compilation. PA6768.C66 2013 872′.01–dc23 2012048374 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover image: Folio from Terence’s Comedies, mid-twelfth century. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Auct. F.2.13, folio 82v Cover design by Workhaus Set in 11/13.5pt Galliard by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India 1 2013 Contents Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Antony Augoustakis and Ariana Traill pArt i terence and Ancient Comedy 15 1. Terence and Greek New Comedy 17 Peter Brown 2. Terence and the Traditions of Roman New Comedy 33 George Fredric Franko 3. Terence and Non-Comic Intertexts 52 Alison Sharrock 4. Fabula Stataria: Language and Humor in Terence 69 Heather Vincent 5. Meter and Music 89 Timothy J. Moore pArt ii Contexts and themes 111 6. Terence and the Scipionic Grex 113 Daniel P. Hanchey 7. opera in bello, in otio, in negotio: Terence and Rome in the 160s bce 132 John H. Starks, Jr. vi Contents 8. Religious Ritual and Family Dynamics in Terence 156 T.H.M. Gellar-Goad 9. Gender and Sexuality in Terence 175 Sharon L. James 10. Family and Household in the Comedies of Terence 195 Z.M. Packman 11. Masters and Slaves 211 Evangelos Karakasis pArt iii the plays 223 12. Andria 225 Robert Germany 13. Heauton Timorumenos 243 Eckard Lefèvre 14. Eunuchus 262 David M. Christenson 15. Phormio 281 Stavros Frangoulidis 16. Hecyra 295 Ortwin Knorr 17. Adelphoe 318 Ariana Traill pArt iV reception 341 18. History of the Text and Scholia 343 Benjamin Victor 19. Terence in Latin Literature from the Second Century bce to the Second Century ce 363 Roman Müller 20. Terence in Late Antiquity 380 Andrew Cain 21. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Christianizes Terence 397 Antony Augoustakis 22. ‘‘Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him’’: Terence in Early Modern England 410 Martine van Elk Contents vii 23. Mulier inopia et cognatorum neglegentia coacta: Thornton Wilder’s Tragic Take on The Woman of Andros 429 Mathias Hanses 24. Terence in Translation 446 John Barsby 25. Performing Terence (and Hrotsvit) Now 466 Mary-Kay Gamel References 482 General Index 515 Index Locorum 523 Contributors Antony Augoustakis is Associate also edited a collection of essays Greek Professor of Classics at the University and Roman Drama: Translation and of Illinois (Urbana–Champaign, Performance (J.B. Metzler, 2002). Illinois, USA) and editor of the jour- He is currently working on a history nal Illinois Classical Studies. He is the of the Otago Classics Department. author of Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian peter Brown is an Emeritus Fellow of Epic (Oxford, 2010) and Plautus’ Trinity College, Oxford University Mercator (Bryn Mawr, 2009). He has (United Kingdom) and a member of edited the Brill Companion to Silius the Advisory Board of the Archive of Italicus (Leiden, 2010), Ritual and Performances of Greek and Roman Religion in Flavian Epic (Oxford, Drama. He has published extensively 2013), and co-edited with Carole on Greek and Roman drama, and his Newlands Statius’ Siluae and the translation of the Comedies of Terence Poetics of Intimacy (Arethusa, 2007). appeared in the Oxford World’s He is currently working on a com- Classics series in January, 2008. He is mentary on Statius’ Thebaid Book 8 co-editor with Suzana Ograjenšek (Oxford) and the Oxford Readings in of Ancient Drama in Music for the Flavian Epic, co-edited with Helen Modern Stage (Oxford, 2010). Lovatt (Oxford). Andrew Cain is Associate Professor John Barsby is Emeritus Professor of of Classics at the University of Classics at the University of Otago Colorado (Boulder, CO, USA). He is (Dunedin, New Zealand). He has the author of The Letters of Jerome: published editions of Ovid’s Amores I Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis, and the (Oxford, 1974), Plautus’ Bacchides Construction of Christian Authority (Aris & Phillips, 1986), and Terence’s in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2009), Eunuchus (Cambridge, 1999) and is St. Jerome, Commentary on Galatians the editor of the new Loeb edition (Catholic University of America of Terence (Harvard, 2001). He has Press, 2010), Jerome’s Epitaph on