Plautus

Plautus was a Roman comic playwright of the third and second centuries BC. Adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, his plays feature clever slaves, boastful soldiers, mistaken identities, money disputes and family recognition.

In Plautus’s The Pot of Gold and Other Plays, this Plautus collection presents Roman comedy through greed, mistaken identity, clever slaves, anxious fathers and chaotic households. Terence’s The Comedies places Plautus within a narrative shaped by social change and the pressures of ordinary life, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and art, learning and intellectual life.