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Title: Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe (Hackett Publishing Co.) by Titus MacCius Plautus, Douglass Parker, Deena Berg, Terence ISBN: 0-87220-362-X Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co. Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Too colloquial but otherwise good
Comment: The translations are a bit too colloquial for my taste. In some plays for instance the names are changes, or a character is said to have a Bronx accent! The translators goal was to have lively and performable versions, and they do, so this may not bother everyone.
Each play has a simple stage diagram, and some notes on what the stage should be like (eg, the first house should be grand and imposing, but the neighboring house is small and unimpressive). The stage directions are good. Short helpful introduction.
The book physically is splendid, with nice easy to read type, and the speakers names in full, offset to make them clear.
Rating: 3
Summary: The translation isn't great
Comment: I enjoyed the plays but would have liked a better translation. The many liberties that were taken in the translation of the text doesn't do the language justice. It made the translation more comprehensive for the modern reader, but the beauty and poetry of the writing was lost. The repetition of sounds and synonyms was profuse and often became annoying. Otherwise, the plays themselves were great fun and a delight to read. This anthology provides a good sampling of Roman comedy as well as good examples of the continuing themes in the genre. I would recommend it for someone new to the field.
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Title: The Aeneid by Virgil, ROBERT FITZGERALD ISBN: 0679729526 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Satyricon by Petronius, William Arrowsmith ISBN: 0452010055 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Makers of Rome: Nine Lives by Plutarch by Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert ISBN: 0140441581 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1965 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Selected Political Speeches of Cicero on the Command of Cnaeus Pompeius Against Lucius Sergius Catilina (I-IV in Defence of the Poet Aulus Licinius) by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Michael Grant ISBN: 0140442146 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1977 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid, Allen Mandelbaum ISBN: 0156001268 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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