Latin 430/530: Roman Drama
Basic Bibliography (in English)
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Fall 2024

NEW COMEDY (GENERAL)

Arnott, W. G. 1975. Menander, Plautus and Terence. Oxford.
Blanchard, A. 2014. "Reconstructing Menander," pp. 239-57 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014).
Brown, P. G. M.  1993. "Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy." Classical Quarterly 43: 189-205.
Brown, P. G. M. 1987. "Masks, Names and Characters in the New Comedy." Hermes 115: 181-202.
Fantham, E. 1975. "Sex, Status and Survival in Hellenistic Athens: A Study of Women in New Comedy." Phoenix 29: 44-74.
Fontaine, M. and A. Scafuro, eds. 2014. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Comedy. Oxford.
Goldberg, S. M. 1980. The Making of Menander’s Comedy. Berkeley.
Goldberg, S. 2007. "Comedy and Society from Menander to Terence," pp. 124-38 in M. MacDonald and J.M. Walton (2007)
Gutzwiller, K. 2000. "The Tragic Mask of Comedy: Metatheatricality in Menander." Classical Antiquity 19: 102-37.
Halporn, J. 1993. "Roman Comedy and Greek Models," pp. 191-213 in R. Scodel, ed., Theater and Society in the Classical World. Ann Arbor.
Handley, E. 2002. "Acting, Actions and Words in New Comedy," pp. 165-88 in P. Easterling and E. Hall, eds., Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession. Cambridge.
Henry, M., 1988. Menander’s Courtesans and the Greek Comic Tradition. Frankfurt am Main.
Handley, E. 1968. Menander and Plautus: A Study in Camparison. London.
Handley, E. W. 1985. "Comedy," pp. 355-425 in The Cambridge History of Ancient Literature, I: Greek Literature. Cambridge.
Hunter, R. L. 1985. The New Comedy of Greece and Rome. Cambridge.
Ireland, S., 2010. “New Comedy,” pp. 336–396 in G.W. Dobrov, ed., Brill’s Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy. Leiden and Boston.
Konstan, D., 1995. Greek Comedy and Ideology. New York and Oxford.
Leisner-Jensen, M. 2005. “Vis comica: Consummated Rape in Greek and Roman New Comedy.” Classica et Mediaevalia 53: 173-96.
Lape, S. 2003. Reproducing Athens:
 Menander's Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City. Princeton.
Lowe, N. J. 2007. Comedy. Greece & Rome (New Surveys in the Classics, no. 37). Cambridge.
Marshall, C.W. 2013. "Sex Slaves in New Comedy," pp. 173-96 in B. Akrigg and R. Tordoff, eds., Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama. Cambridge..
McDonald, M. and Walton, J. M., eds. 2007. The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theater. Cambridge.
Nervegna, S., 2013. Menander in Antiquity: the Contexts of Reception. Cambridge.
Petrides, A.K., and S. Papaioannou, eds., 2010. New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy. Newcastle.
Petrides, A.K. 2014. Menander, New Comedy and the Visual. Cambridge.
Rosivach, V.J. 1998. When a Young Man Falls in Love: The Sexual Exploitation of Women in New Comedy. London.
Scafuro, A. C. 1997. The Forensic Stage: Settling Disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy. Cambridge.
Scafuro, A.C. 2014. "Menander," pp. 218-38 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014)
Sommerstein, A.H., ed., 2014. Menander in Contexts (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies 16). New York.
Traill, A. 2008. Women and the Comic Plot in Menander. Cambridge.
Walton, M.J., and P.D. Arnott, eds., 1996. Menander and the Making of Comedy. Westport, CT, and London.
Wiles, D. 1991. The Masks of Menander. Sign and Meaning in Greek and Roman Performance. Cambridge.
Wiles, D. 1989. "Marriage and Prostitution in Classical New Comedy," pp. 31-48 in J. Redmond, ed., Themes in Drama II: Women in Theatre (Cambridge).
Zagagi, N. 1994. The Comedy of Menander. London.

ROMAN THEATER

Adams, J.N. 1984. "Female Speech in Latin Comedy." Antichthon 18: 43-7
Augoustakis, A., and A. Traill, eds., 2013. A Companion to Terence. Oxford and Malden, MA.
Barrios-Lech, P. 2016. Linguistic Interactions in Roman Comedy. Cambridge.
Batstone, W.W. 2009. "The Drama of Rhetoric at Rome," pp. 212-27 in E. Gunderson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric. Cambridge.
Barsby, J.A. 1982. "Actors and Act-Divisions: Some Questions of Adaptation in Roman Comedy." Antichthon 16: 77-87.
Beacham, R.C. 1991. The Roman Theatre and its Audience. Cambridge, MA.
Beacham, R.C. 2007. "Playing Spaces: The Temporary and the Permanent," pp. 202-26 in MacDonald and Walton (2007).
Beare, W. 1964. The Roman Stage. 3rd edition. London.
Bexley, E. 2014. "Plautus and Terence in Performance," pp. 462-76 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014).
Bieber, M. 1961. The History of the Greek and Roman Theatre. 2nd edition. Princeton.
Braund, S. 2005. “Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce in Roman Comic Drama,” pp. 39-70 in W. S. Smith, ed., Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer. Ann Arbor.
Brown, P. G. M. 2002. "Actors and Actor-Managers at Rome in the Time of Plautus and Terence," pp. 225-37 in P. Easterling and E. Hall, eds., Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession. Cambridge.
Candiard, C. 2019. "Roman Comedy on Stage and Screen in the Twentieth and Twenty First Century," pp. 350-66 in Dinter (2019).
Christenson, D. 2019. "Metatheatre," pp. 136-50 in Dinter (2019).
Csapo, E. G. 1993. "A Case Study in the Use of Theatre Iconography as Evidence for Ancient Acting." Antike Kunst 36: 41-58.
de Melo, W. D. 2014. "Plautus's Dramatic Predecessors and Contemporaries in Rome," pp. 447-61 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014).
Dinter, M., ed. 2019. The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy. Cambridge.
Duckworth, G. E. 1994 The Nature of Roman Comedy. 2nd edition. Norman, OK, 1994.
Dudley, D. R. and Dorey, T.A., eds., 1965. Roman Drama. London.
Dutsch, D. M. 2008. Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices. Oxford.
Dutsch, D., S. James and D. Konstan, eds. 2015. Women in Roman Republican Drama. Madison.
Erasmo, M. 2004. Roman Tragedy: Theatre to Theatricality. Austin, TX.
Fantham, E.  2005. “Roman Tragedy,” pp. 116-29 in S. J. Harrison, ed., A Companion to Latin Literature. Oxford. 
Feltovich, A. 2015. "The Many Shapes of Sisterhood in Roman Comedy," pp. 128-51 in Dutsch, James, and Konstan (2015).
Fitzgerald, W. 2019. "Slaves and Roman Comedy," pp. 188-99 in Dinter (2019).
Fontaine, M. and A. Scafuro, eds. 2014. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Comedy. Oxford.
Fortson, B. W. 2008. Language and Rhythm in Plautus: Synchronic and Diachronic Studies. Sozomena/Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 3. Berlin/New York.
Frangoulidis, S. 1997. Handlung und Nebenhandlung. Theater, Metatheater und Gattungsbewusstsein in der römischen Komödie (in English). Stuttgart.
Frangoulidis, S., S.J. Harrison and G. Manuwald, eds. 2016. Roman Drama in its Contexts (De Gruyter Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes 34). Berlin and Boston.
Franko, G.F. 2014. "Festivals, Producers, Theatrical Spaces, and Records," pp. 409-23 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014).
Garton, C. 1972. Personal Aspects of the Roman Theatre. Toronto.
Gentili, B. 1979. Theatrical Performance in the Ancient World. Hellenistic and Early Roman Theatre. Amsterdam.
Goldberg, S. M. 1996. “The Fall and Rise of Roman Tragedy.” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 126: 265-86.
Goldberg, S. M. 1998. “Plautus on the Palatine.” Journal of Roman Studies 88: 1-20.
Gratwick, A.S. 1982. "Drama," pp. 77-137 in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, II: Latin Literature. Cambridge.
Gruen, E. 2014. "Roman Comedy and the Social Scene," pp. 601-14 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014)
Hanson, J.A. 1959. Roman Theater-Temples. Princeton.
James, S.L. 1998. "Introduction: Constructions of Gender and Genre in Roman Comedy and Elegy." Helios 25: 3-16.
Jocelyn, H. 1967. The Tragedies of Ennius. Cambridge.
Jory, E. 1986. "Continuity and Chnage in the Roman Theatre," pp. 143-52 in J. Betts et al., eds., Studies in Honour of T.B.L. Webster. Bristol.
Karakasis, E. 2014. "The Language of the Palliata," pp. 555-79 in M. Fontaine and A.C Scafuro (2014)
Leigh, M. 2000. “Primitivism and Power: the Beginnings of Latin Literature,” pp. 288-310 in O. Taplin, ed., Literature in the Greek and Roman World: A New Perspective (Oxford).
Leigh, M. 2004. Comedy and the Rise of Rome. Oxford.
Manuwald, G. 2011. Roman Republican Theatre. Cambridge.
Manuwald, G. 2014. "Tragedy, Paratragedy, and Roman Comedy," pp. 580-98 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014).
Marshall, C. W. 2006. The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. Cambridge.
Marshall, C.W. 2019. "Stage Action in Roman Comedy," pp. 87-100 in Dinter (2019).
McCart, G. 2007. "Masks in Greek and Roman Theatre," pp. 247-67 in M. MacDonald and J.M. Walton, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre. Cambridge.
McDonald, M. and Walton, J. M., eds. 2007. The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theater. Cambridge.
Moore, T.J. 1998. "‘Music and Structure in Roman Comedy." American Journal of Philology 119: 245-73.
Moore, T.J. 2008. "When Did the Tibicen Play? Meter and Musical Accompaniment in Roman Comedy." Transactions of the American Philological Association 138: 3-46.
Moore, T.J. 2012. Music in Roman Comedy. Cambridge.
Packman, Z. M. 1993. "Call It Rape: A Motif in Roman Comedy and its Suppression in English-Speaking Publications." Helios 20: 42-55.
Panayotakis, C. 2005. "Non-verbal Behaviour on the Roman Comic Stage," pp. 175-93 in D. Cairns, ed., Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Swansea.
Panayotakis, C. 2005. "Comedy, Atellan Farce, and Mime," pp. 130-47 in S. J. Harrison, ed., A Companion to Latin Literature. Oxford.
Parker, H. 1989. "Crucially Funny or Tranio on the Couch: the Servus Callidus and Jokes about Torture." Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 119: 233-46.
Parker, H. 1996. “Plautus vs. Terence: Audience and Popularity Re-Examined." American Journal of Philology 117: 585-617.
Richlin, A. 2015. "Slave-Women Drag’, pp. 37-67 in Dutsch, James, and Konstan (2015).
Sear, F. B.  1990. "Vitruvius and Roman Theater Design." American Journal of Archaeology 94: 249-58.
Sharrock, A. 2009. Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence. Cambridge.
Sheets, G. A. 1983. "Plautus and Early Roman Tragedy." Illinois Classical Studies 8: 195-209.
Slater, W.J., ed. 1996. Roman Theater and Society. Ann Arbor, MI.
Small, D. B. 1983. "Studies in Roman Theater Design." American Journal of Archaeology 87: 55-68.
Telò, M. 2019. “Roman Comedy and the Poetics of Adaptation," pp. 47-65 in Dinter (2019).
Wright, J. 1974. Dancing in Chains. Rome.

PLAUTUS

Anderson, W. S. 1993. Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy. Toronto.
Barbiero, E.A. 2020. "Alii Rhetorica Tangent: Plautus and Public Speech," pp. 393-406 in Dutsch and Franko (2020).
Barbiero, E. 2023. Letters in Plautus: Writing between the Lines. Cambridge.
Barrios-Lech, P. 2020. "The Langauge of Plautus," pp. 221-26 in Dutsch and Franko (2020).
Batstone, W.W. 2005. "Plautine Farce and Plautine Freedom: an Essay on the Value of Metatheatre," pp. 13-46 in W.W. Batstone and G. Tissol, eds. Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature. New York.
Burton, P. 2020, "Warfare and Imperialism in and around Plautus," pp. 301-16 in Dutsch and Franko (2020).
Castellani, V. 1988. "Plautus versus Komoidia: Popular Farce at Rome," pp. 53-82 in J. Redmond, ed., Themes in Drama 10: Farce (Cambridge).
Caston, R.R. 2020. "Friends without benefits? Philosophical dimensions of Plautus’ conception of friendship," pp. 175-93 in Papaioannou and Demetriou (2020).
Chalmers, W. R. 1965. "Plautus and his Audience," pp. 21-50 in D. R. Dudley and T. A. Dorey, eds., Roman Drama (London).
Christenson, D. 2016. "All’s Well that Ends Well? Old Fools, Morality, and Epilogues in Plautus," pp. 215-29 in Frangoulidis, S., Harrison, S. and Manuwald, G. eds., Roman Drama and its Contexts (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 34), Berlin.
Christenson, D. 2020. "Nouo Modo Nouom Aliquid Inuentum: Plautine Priorities," pp. 77-91 in Dutsch and Franko (2020).
Connors, C. 2004. "Monkey Business: Imitation, Authenticity, and Identity from Pithekoussai to Plautus, Classical Antiquity 23: 179-207.
Connors, C. 2020. "To Hell and Back: Comedy, Cult, and the House of the Meretrix," pp. 151-64 in Dutsch and Franko (2020).
Dutsch, D. and Franko, G. F. 2020. Blackwell's Companion to Plautus. Hoboken, NJ.
Earl, D. C. 1960. "Political Terminology in Plautus." Historia 9: 235-43.
Ferri, R. 2014. "The Reception of Plautus in Antiquity," pp. 767-81 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014).
Fontaine, M. 2010. Funny Words in Plautine Comedy. Oxford.
Fontaine. M. 2014. "Between Two Paradigms: Plautus," pp. 516-37 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014)
Fontaine, M. and A. Scafuro, eds. 2014. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Comedy. Oxford.
Fraenkel, E. 2007. Plautine Elements in Plautus, trs. T. Drevikovsky and F. Muecke. Oxford.
Gratwick, A. S. 1973. “Titus Maccius Plautus.” Classical Quarterly 23: 78-84.
Handley, E. W. 1968. Menander and Plautus: A Study in Comparison. London.
Hanson, J. A. 1950. "Plautus as a Source Book for Roman Religion." Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 90: 48-101.
Knapp. C. 1919. “References in Plautus and Terence to Plays, Players, and Playwrights.” Classical Philology 14: 35-55.
Konstan, D. 1983. Roman Comedy. Ithaca.
Lowe, J. C. B. 1985. "Cooks in Plautus." Classical Antiquity 4: 72-102.
Lowe, J. C. B. 1990. "Plautus' Choruses." Rheinisches Museum 133: 274-97.
McCarthy, K. 2000. Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy. Princeton.
Maurice, L. 2003. "Amici et sodales: An Examination of a Double Motif in Plautus." Mnemosyne 56: 164-93.
Moore, T. J. 1995. "Seats and Social Status in the Plautine Theatre." Classical Journal 90: 113-123.
Moore, T. J. 1998. The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience. Austin, TX.
Moore, T.J. 2012. Music in Roman Comedy. Cambridge.
Muecke, F. 1986. "Plautus and the Theater of Disguise." Classical Antiquity 5: 216-29.
Papaioannou, S. and C. Demetriou, eds. 2020. Plautus’ Erudite Comedy: New Insights into the Work of a doctus poeta. Newcastle upon Tyne.
Petrides, A.K. 2014. "Plautus between Greek Comedy and Atellan Farce: Assessments and Reassessments," pp. 424-43 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014).
Rei, A. 1998. "Villains, Wives, and Slaves in the Comedies of Plautus," pp.  92-129 in S.R. Joshel and S. Murnaghan, eds., Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations (London and New York).
Richlin, A. 2014. "Talking to Slaves in the Plautine Audience." Classical Antiquity 33: 174-226.
Richlin, A. 2017. Slave Theater in the Roman Repubic: Plautus and Popular Comedy. Cambridge.
Rosenmeyer, P. A. 1995. "Enacting the Law: Plautus' Use of the Divorce Formula on Stage." Phoenix 49: 201-17.
Segal, E. 1987. Roman Laughter. 2nd edition. Oxford.
Sharrock, A. 2008. "The Theatrical Life of Things: Plautus and the Physical." Dictynna 5: 171-89.
Slater, N. W. 2000. Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind. 2nd edn. Amsterdam.
Stewart, R. 2012. Plautus and Roman Slavery. Malden, MA.
Stockert, W. 2014. "The Rebirth of a Codex: Virtual Work on the Ambrosian Palimpset of Plautus," pp. 680-98 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014).
Tatum, J. 2020. "Trends in Plautus Translation," pp. 473-88 in Dutsche and Franko (2020).
Wiles, D. 1988. "Taking Farce Seriously: Recent Critical Approaches to Plautus," pp. 261-72 in J. Redmond, ed., Themes in Drama 10: Farce (Cambridge).
Witke, S. 2020. Gender and Sexuality in Plautus," pp. 331-46 in Dutsch and Franko (2020).
Zagagi, N. 1980. Tradition and Originality in Plautus. Göttingen.

TERENCE

Arnott, W. G. 1986. "Terence's Prologues." Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar 5: 1-7.
Augoustakis, A. and A. Traill, eds. 2013. Blackwell's Companion to Terence. Oxford and Maldon, MA.
Boyle, A. J. 2004. "Terence's Mirror Stage." Ramus 33: 1-10.
Brown, P. G. M. 2002. "Actors and Actor-Managers at Rome in the Time of Plautus and Terence," pp. 225-37 in E. Hall and P. Easterling, eds., Greek and Roman Actor:  Aspects of an Ancient Profession. Cambridge.
Brown, P. 2013. "Terence and Greek New Comedy," pp. 17-32 in Augoustakis and Traill (2013).
Demetriou, C. 2014. "Aelius Donatus and his Commentary on Terence's Comedies," pp. 782-99 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014).
Earl, D. C. 1962. "Terence and Roman Politics." Historia 11: 469-85.
Ehrman, R. K. 1985. “Terentian Prologues and the Parabases of Old Comedy.” Latomus 44: 370-76.
Fantham, E. 2004. "Terence and the Familiarisation of Comedy." Ramus 33: 21-34.
Fontaine, M. and A.C Scafuro, eds., 2014. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Comedy. Oxford.
Fontaine, M. 2014. "The Terentian Reformation: From Menander to Alexandria," pp. 538-54 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014).
Forehand, W. E. 1985. Terence. Boston.
Franko, G.F. 2013. "Terence and the Traditions of Roman New Comedy," pp. 33-51 in Augoustakis and Traill (2013).
Gilula, D. 1989. "How Rich was Terence?" Scripta Classica Israelica 8-9: 74-8.
Gilula, D. 1990. "The First Realistic Roles in European Theatre: Terence's Prologues." Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 62: 95-106.
Goldberg, S. M. 1983. "Terence, Cato, and the Rhetorical Prologue." Classical Philology 78: 198-211.
Goldberg, S. M. 1986. Understanding Terence. Princeton.
Goldberg, S. M. 1993. "Terence and the Death of Comedy," pp. 52-64 in R. Johnson, C. Davidson and J. H. Stroupe, eds., Drama and the Classical Heritage. Brooklyn, NY.
Gowers, E. 2004. "The Plot Thickens: Hidden Outlines in Terence's Prologue." Ramus 33: 150-66.
Grant, J. N. 1986. Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence. Toronto.
James, S.L. 2013. "Gender and Sexuality in Terence," pp. 175-94 in Augoustakis and Traill (2013).
Karakasis, E. 2005. Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy. Cambridge.
Karakasis, E. 2013. "Masters and Slaves," pp. 211-22 in Augoustakis and Traill (2013).
Kruschwitz, P., W.-W. Ehlers, and F. Felgentreu, F., eds. 2007. Terentius Poeta. Munich.
Maltby, R. 1985. "The Distribution of Greek Loan-words in Terence." Classical Quartely 35: 110-23.
McCarthy, K. 2004. "The Joker in the Pack: Slaves in Terence." Ramus 33: 100-19.
McElduff, S.  2004. "More than Menander's Acolyte: Terence as Translator." Ramus 33: 120-29.
Moore, T. J. 2013. "Meter and Music," pp. 89-110 in Augoustakis and Trail (2013).
Parker, H. N. 1996. "Plautus vs. Terence: Audience and Popularity Re-examined." American Journal of Philology 117: 585-617.
Slater, N. W. 1992. "Two Republican Poets on Drama: Terence and Accius," pp. 85-103 in B. Zimmermann, ed., Antike Dramentheorien und ihre Rezeption. Stuttgart.
Starks, J. 2013. "opera in bello, in otio, in negotio: Terence and Rome in the 160s BCE," pp. 132-55 in Augoustakis and Traill (2013).
Turner, A.J. and G. Torello-Hill, eds. 2015. Terence between Late Antiquity and the Age of Printing. Leiden and Boston.
Victor, B. 2014. "The Transmission of Terence," pp. 699-716 in Fontaine and Scafuro (2014).
Webber Jones, L. and Morey, C. K. 1930-1. The Miniatures of the Manuscripts of Terence Prior to the Thirteenth Century. Princeton.

Adams, J.N. 1982. The Latin Sexual Vocabulary. London
Adams, J.N. 2003. Bilingualism and the Latin Language. Cambridge.
Adams, J.N. 2013. Social Variation and the Latin Language. Cambridge.
Astin, A. E. 1967. Scipio Aemilianus. Oxford.
Attardo, S. 1994. Linguistic Theories of Humor. Berlin and New York.
Attardo, S., ed. 2014. The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA.
Bakhtin, M. 1981. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin, trs. C. Emerson and M. Holquist. Austin, TX.
Bakhtin, M. 1984.  Rabelais and his World, trs. H. Iswolsky. Bloomington, IN.
Beard, M., North J. and Price, S. 1998. Religions of Rome. 2 vols. Cambridge.
Beard, M. 2014. Laughter in Ancient Rome. Berkeley and London.
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Bodel, J. and Olyan, S.M., eds. 2008. Household and Family Religion in Antiquity. Malden, MA.
Bradley, K. R. 1994. Slavery and Society at Rome. Cambridge.
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Earl, D. 1967. The Moral and Political Tradition of Rome. Ithaca.
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Finley, M.I. 1998. Ancient Slavery and Moderrn Ideology. Princeton.
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Gardner, J.F. 1986. Women in Roman Law and Society. London and Sydney.
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Goldberg, S. M. 2005. Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic. Cambridge.
Gowers, E. 1993. The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature. Oxford.
Graf, F. 1991. “Gestures and Conventions: The Gestures of Roman Actors and Orators,” pp. 36-58 in J. Bremmer and H. Roodenburg, eds., A Cultural History of Gesture  from Antiquity to the Present Day. Oxford.
Grote, D. 1983. The End of Comedy: the Sit-Com and the Comedic Tradition. Hamden, CT.
Gruen, E. S. 1984. The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome. Berkeley.
Gruen, E. S. 1990. Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy. Leiden.
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Habinek, T.N. 1998. The Politics of Latin Literature: Writing, Identity, and Empire in Ancient Rome. Princeton.
Habinek, T. 2005. The World of Roman Song: from Ritualized Speech to Social Order. Baltimore and London.
Harris, W. V. 1979. War and Imperialism in Republican Rome. Oxford.
Hinds, S. 1998. Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry. Cambridge.
Joshel, S.R., and S. Murnaghan (eds.). 1998. Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations. London and New York.
Lowe, N.J. 2000. The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative. Cambridge.
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Palmer, J. 1994. Taking Humour Seriously. London.
Patterson, O. 1982. Slavery and Social Death. Cambridge, MA.
Nelson, T.G.A. 1990. Comedy: an Introduction to Comedy in Literature, Drama, and Cinema. Oxford.
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Saller, R. P. 1994. Patriarchy, Property, and Death in the Roman Family. Cambridge.
Skinner, M.B. 2013. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture. Malden, MA.
Slater, W. J. 1996. Roman Theater and Society. Ann Arbor.
Stott, A. 2005. Comedy. New York.
Taplin, O. 1993. Comic Angels. Oxford.
Treggiari, S. 1991. Roman Marriage. Oxford. 
Watson, A. 1967. The Law of Persons in the Later Roman Republic. Oxford.
Wiles, D. 2003. A Short History of Western Performance Space. Cambridge.
Williams, C. 2010. Roman Homosexuality. Oxford.
Wills, J. 1996. Repetition in Latin Poetry: Figures of Allusion. Oxford.
Zupančič, A. 2008. The Odd One In: On Comedy. Cambridge, MA.

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