Comédies. Tome II : Heautontimoroumenos - Phormion -

Terêncio

Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres"

1964

380 páginas

12h 40m

ISBN-10: B000BGV20A

These are two of the six comedies of Terence (c.190-158 B.C.), a freed Roman slave from North Africa, translated into French. Heauton timoroumenos, or The Self-Tormentor (163 BC), is an adaptation of the Greek playwright Menander's work of the same name, and Phormion (161 BC) is based on a play by the Greek Apollodorus. Terence's output was meager not only because he was lost at sea when he was about thirty on a journey to Greece, but because he was a scrupulous stylist. His work was not as popular with the general public as it was percieved of as "cold," while the Roman citizens of the time preferred coarse jokes. Shortly after Terence's death, Roman drama fell into decline, replaced by gaudy public spectacles.

BIOGRAPHIES CONTRIBUTEURS
TÉRENCE
Térence (ca 185 – 159) est un auteur de théâtre latin. Ancien esclave devenu l'un des amis personnels de Scipion Émilien, il est l’auteur de six pièces comiques qui lui assurèrent sa renommée malgré des suspicions de plagiat.

Jules MAROUZEAU
Professeur de philologie latine à la Sorbonne