Terence c. 195/185 B. C.-159 B. C. (Full name Publius Terentius Afer) Roman playwright. Terence is best known for the elegant language, symmetrical plots, and complex, sympathetic ...

Terence's life, like his death, remains surrounded by mystery and conjecture. He departed Rome for Greece, never to return, possibly to delve deeper into the Greek culture that inspired his …

Terence’s candid acknowledgment of life’s challenges—"train for ill and not for good"—provides a sobering perspective that resonates with the reader's own experiences of adversity.

In Terence’s Shropshire, the imagery of decaying corpses and wilting flowers is emblematic of a broader existential despair. For Housman's generation, the idyllic vision of "Paradise" was ...

Terence (Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism) Introduction; Principal Works; Criticism Joseph Webbe (essay date 1629) An introduction to The First Comedy of Pub. Terentius, …

“Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff,” poem LXII of A Shropshire Lad, is a reflective piece often seen as Housman's defense of his poetic choices. As the collection nears its end, Housman uses this ...

SOURCE: An introduction to The Comedies of Terence, translated by Frank O. Copley, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1967, pp. vii-xxi. [Below, Copley discusses Terence's dramatic …

Terence’s play The Brothers is a translation and, therefore, Romanization of a play originally written by the Greek playwright Menander. A work of Roman New Comedy, the play pokes fun …

Terence, then, had an individual contribution to make to his craft. His own temperament as well as the literary tastes of his patrons led him to attempt a new and finer interpretation of the ...

The Eunuch is a play by Terence, a Roman playwright who lived during the second century BC. The Eunuch is a play that deals with a common theme for Roman comedy: a cunning slave …