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The Aulularia of Plautus: The Pot of Gold
Book by Addison Wesley
- GenresClassics
96 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1988
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October 3, 2015
[trigger warning for discussion of rape]
In which rape in used as a plot device and treated as a minor insult (against the girl's father, rather than the girl herself). But it's okay because she gets to marry her rapist and live happily ever after (according to the men).
It's interesting how the scholarship on Plautus either points out how shocking and uncomfortable it is for modern audiences that rape would be used so casually as a plot device and the victims feelings utterly disregarded (yeah right; modern media does precisely this all the time - HBO's Game of Thrones, anyone?) or else completely ignores the rape or brushes over it or translates it a 'seduction' (thereby implying it's consensual), while claiming these are the most delightful comedies ever produced.
In which rape in used as a plot device and treated as a minor insult (against the girl's father, rather than the girl herself). But it's okay because she gets to marry her rapist and live happily ever after (according to the men).
It's interesting how the scholarship on Plautus either points out how shocking and uncomfortable it is for modern audiences that rape would be used so casually as a plot device and the victims feelings utterly disregarded (yeah right; modern media does precisely this all the time - HBO's Game of Thrones, anyone?) or else completely ignores the rape or brushes over it or translates it a 'seduction' (thereby implying it's consensual), while claiming these are the most delightful comedies ever produced.
October 31, 2020
It's an easy and quick read.
I feel bad for Phaedria though...Was she raped? What does it mean in the beginning that she was seduced and didn't know by whom but the guy knew who he seduced?
I feel bad for Phaedria though...Was she raped? What does it mean in the beginning that she was seduced and didn't know by whom but the guy knew who he seduced?
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November 18, 2012
Student edition with facing commentary and vocab. Text is altered for spelling and some endings (-ier replaced with -i, e.g.). Notes are mostly helpful.
Fun play, but I would think the lack of an ending would be very disheartening for a student who'd slogged through the whole thing.
Fun play, but I would think the lack of an ending would be very disheartening for a student who'd slogged through the whole thing.
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