variations attested in inscriptions and some literary works such as those of the comic playwrights Plautus and Terence and author Petronius. Late Latin is the...

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Rome) was published as a backup series in this comic title. Trigan Empire was a Science Fiction comic series telling of adventures on the planet Elekton...

contribute significantly to an understanding of Roman sexuality include: the comic playwright Plautus (d. 184 BC), whose plots often revolve around sex comedy...

praetexta (tragedy) respectively. The togata is distinguished from more popular comic genres, such as the Atellan Farce, juxtaposed with commedia dell'arte, and...

himself as a serious and vigorous opponent of wrong-doers, Horace aimed for comic effects and adopted the persona of a weak and ineffectual critic of his...

slaves, and the urban poor. In Greek New Comedy, from which the Roman comic tradition derived, actors wore masks which were conventionally associated...

In adapting Greek plays to be performed for Roman audiences, the Roman comic dramatists made several changes to the structure of the productions. Most...

political catchwords continued to be used as propaganda by later emperors. The comic poet Plautus made use of virtus in his play Trinummus which concerned family...

Press, ISBN 978-0-8061-2620-3 Duncan, Anne (2006), "Infamous performers : comic actors and female prostitutes in Rome", in Faraone, Christopher A.; McClure...

that they could be subjected to physical punishment as slaves were. The comic playwright known in English as Terence was a slave who was manumitted because...

Goldschmidt, is named after the city. Lutetia is featured in the French comic series The Adventures of Asterix, most notably in Asterix and the Golden...

This practice was not uncommon as early as the 2nd century BCE, when the comic playwright Plautus mentions wet-nurses. Since a mother's milk was considered...

William M. Seaman proposes that these Greek names would have delivered a comic punch to the audience because of its basic understanding of the Greek language...

Uden, James (2006). "Embracing the Young Man in Love: Catullus 75 and the Comic Adulescens". Antichthon. 40: 19–34. doi:10.1017/S0066477400001635. S2CID 142740848...

throughout his plays and added to the humor with puns and wisecracks, as well as comic actions by the actors. Terence's plays were more austere in tone, dealing...

poet Statius Caecilius (220 – 168/166 BC), comic dramatist Publius Terentius Afer (195/185 – 159 BC), comic dramatist Marcus Porcius Cato (234–149 BC)...

the study of ancient Rome from a number of perspectives, although their comic mode of expression makes it problematic to accept the content as strictly...

this has earned him a place in literary history as the original insult comic. Below is a sample of his more insulting work: You feign youth, Laetinus...

use of mythic allusions and circumlocution, which Pound mimics to more comic effect in his Homage. The imagist interpretation, the poet's tendency to...