Classics 351
March 29, 2022


impluvium
of a Roman house

**Examination #2: due Tuesday, April 5 @11:59pm (no class 4/5)**


Miles Gloriosus/The Braggart Soldier: comic characters Larger than Life; Plautus's longest play (early in career; only song at 1011-1093, Palaestrio/Milphidippa/Pyrgopolynices); repetition & drawn-out bits, scenes, e.g. "rehearsals" onstage, Palaestrio's monologues, drunken Lurcio scene, misogynist rants; Plautine themes (metatheater, identity theft, mimesis, confusion of dreaming & sleeping/appearance & reality)