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Terence

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Terence was born in Carthage. As a boy, he was the slave of Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, who educated him and set him free. He was an intimate friend of the younger Scipio and of the elegant poet Laelius. They were the gilded youth of Rome, and Terence's plays were undoubtedly written for vis mere this inner circle, not for the vulgar crowd. They were adapted from Menander and other Greek writers of the New Comedy and, in the main, were written seriously on a high literary plane with careful handling of plot and character. The six comedies are all extant. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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(eng) full name Publius Terentius Afer.

Image credit: Alleged portrait of Terence, from Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3868. Possibly copied from 3d century original.

Værker af Terence

The Comedies (0166) — Forfatter — 881 eksemplarer
The Brothers (1974) 242 eksemplarer
Andria (1882) — Forfatter — 158 eksemplarer
Phormio (1899) 133 eksemplarer
Eunuchus (1963) 90 eksemplarer
Hecyra (1962) 51 eksemplarer
Heauton Timorumenos (1982) — Forfatter — 36 eksemplarer
Phormio & Other Plays (1958) 32 eksemplarer
The Brothers and Other Plays (1965) 29 eksemplarer
Roman comedies (1942) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer
Adelphi (1959) 9 eksemplarer
Andria-Hecyra (1993) 8 eksemplarer
Comédies : Tome III (1991) 6 eksemplarer
La suocera. Testo latino a fronte (2010) 5 eksemplarer
Komedies 4 eksemplarer
Commedie. Testo latino a fronte (2007) 3 eksemplarer
P. Terenti Comoediae 3 eksemplarer
Tutte le commedie. Vol. I (1953) 3 eksemplarer
Comedias (2007) 2 eksemplarer
Obras 2 eksemplarer
Héautontimoruménos (2001) 2 eksemplarer
Commoediae 2 eksemplarer
Antīkā komēdija — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Comédias II (2010) 2 eksemplarer
Adelphoe (Die Brüder) (1987) 1 eksemplar
Comoediae. 1 eksemplar
Selvplageren 1 eksemplar
Os dois irmãos 1 eksemplar
Comédias I (2008) 1 eksemplar
Formión (1999) 1 eksemplar
Terencio- Comedias I (2016) 1 eksemplar
A Sogra (1994) 1 eksemplar
Pigen fra Andros 1 eksemplar
34. COMEDIAS COMPLETAS (2021) 1 eksemplar
Comedias I 1 eksemplar
Terencio-Comedias II (2016) 1 eksemplar
Hadim 1 eksemplar
La commedia di costume (2001) 1 eksemplar
Le commedie, 2 1 eksemplar
Le commedie, 1 1 eksemplar
le commedie 1 eksemplar
Drei Komödien 1 eksemplar
It's only a play 1 eksemplar
The kitchen book 1 eksemplar
Blue Limbo 1 eksemplar
Classical Thought 1 eksemplar
Comedies - Tome 2 (1948) 1 eksemplar
Terentius Delphini 1 eksemplar
Comedies tomo III 1 eksemplar
Comedies tome II 1 eksemplar
Comedies tome I 1 eksemplar
Eunuchus. Phormio 1 eksemplar
Comèdies, vol. 4 1 eksemplar
Comèdies, vol. 3 1 eksemplar
Comèdies, vol. 2 1 eksemplar
Comèdies, vol. 1 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Roman Readings (1958) — Forfatter — 67 eksemplarer
Treasury of the Theatre: From Aeschylus to Ostrovsky (1967) — Bidragyder — 48 eksemplarer
Antike Komödien (1979) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer

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Kanonisk navn
Terentius Afer, Publius
Juridisk navn
Terentius Afer, Publius
Fødselsdato
0195 B.C.
Dødsdag
0159 B.C.
Køn
male
Nationalitet
Roman Empire
Land (til kort)
Tunisia
Fødested
Carthage, North Africa
Dødssted
Unknown - Stymphale, Grece?
Bopæl
Carthage, North Africa (now Tunisia, birth)
Rome, Roman Empire
Erhverv
dramatist
Organisationer
Scipionic Circle
Kort biografi
Né à Carthage vers -190, Térence est réduit en esclavage alors qu'il est encore enfant. Aussi, son surnom d'Afer était-il celui qu'on donnait aux Africains. Il est ensuite vendu — ou donné — au sénateur romain Terentius. Grâce à son talent, à sa beauté et à sa flûte, qui impressionnent fortement son maître, il reçoit une éducation d'homme libre et est rapidement affranchi. Il fréquente dès lors la haute société et, pour les cercles érudits, écrit des comédies. Enfin, au cours de sa vie, il aura une fille qui épousera un chevalier romain.
Accueilli dans la haute société aristocratique, Térence est protégé par les Scipions, dont le cercle comprenait Scipion Émilien, Caius Laelius Sapiens, Lucius Furius Philus... Dès l'origine, des ragots contradictoires courent sur l'identité du véritable auteur des comédies de Térence. Pour ces cercles érudits et friands d'hellénisme, il écrit des pièces plus littéraires et moins axées sur la représentation, ce qui permet à certaines comédies d'êtres jouées plusieurs fois, contre les habitudes du théâtre romain. Cela lui vaut toutefois des difficultés, non seulement avec le public, lors des représentations, mais aussi avec la critique officielle et, en particulier, avec Luscius de Lanuvium, président du collegium poetarum, qui accablera Térence de ses récriminations.
Sa carrière est très brève. Après avoir présenté six comédies à Rome, il part, en -160, chercher en Grèce des sujets de pièces inédites  : il traduit là, semble-t-il, 108 comédies de Ménandre. Mais à partir de l'année -159, quand il décide de rentrer de Grèce, nous ne savons plus rien de Térence. Sa vie semble s'interrompre à ce moment-là. Deux thèses ont été avancées  :
Térence aurait fait naufrage en mer, dans la baie de Leucade ;
Térence, désespéré par la disparition de ses manuscrits, serait mort d'affliction, à Stymphale, en Arcadie.
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full name Publius Terentius Afer.

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AnkaraLibrary | Feb 29, 2024 |
I have Betty Radice’s translation. This is a prime example of what the Penguin Classics were doing back in the ‘60s. Just three or four one line notes per play, mostly on the original staging. The translation is in prose with most of the rhetoric stripped out. I suspect this may have altered the character of the plays somewhat, but there’s no denying the writing is lively and enjoyable. Perhaps not the best edition if you’re studying the plays, but great if you’re reading for fun.

I’ve read all the surviving European plays up to this point in time and I’ve noticed that each playwright adds some feature or another that we have retained in modern drama. At the start of Andria, instead of some god or whoever delivering the prologue and explaining the plot, Terence uses this to settle some literary scores and the opening scene is two characters engaging in actual expository dialogue. It’s clunky exposition by modern standards, but exposition it is. There are lots of features to the plays which seem old-fashioned now, like asides and monologues etc, but I got the feeling that with these Terence was breaking the fourth wall. Plautus always gave me the impression that there was no fourth wall. I sometimes got the sense that the characters were actual personalities trapped inside stock characters, rather than (with Plautus) stock characters waiting for an actor to bring them to life. These are the first plays which feel modern in some sense.

Terence’s structuring is excellent and all the plays are good, Phormio especially, with two exceptions. The Self-Tormentor is a total mess. Really quite shocking that anyone would have the gall to stage something like that. I have knocked off a rating star.

At the other end of the scale is The Eunuch. I’m going to stick my neck out and suggest this is a masterpiece and a classic for all time. Excellent construction and pacing. Some scenes comic, some shocking. It takes a very conventional Greco-Roman plot, spins it, transcends it, and manages to say something about the human condition. All the characters are compromised in some way, whether it be morally, socially etc etc. Some of these compromises are imposed by living in a society riven by enormous social problems like slavery and oligarchy, but all the main characters compromise themselves in some way, and are thus become morally low. The whole comedy is a kind of inverse tragedy. I would suggest that the main character is Pamphila, who appears only once on stage and never speaks a word. Abducted as a toddler, repeatedly bought and sold as a slave, used by the one woman she should have been able to trust, raped, and finally married to her rapist as no-one else will have her. She’s basically the tragic figure that suffers, not because of her own flaws, but because of the flaws of those around her. Hilarious.
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Lukerik | 3 andre anmeldelser | Feb 19, 2021 |
It's been so long since I read this that I can't really remember the details.
 
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Tara_Calaby | 3 andre anmeldelser | Jun 22, 2020 |
COMEDIAS VOLUMEN I

El comediógrafo latino Publio Terencio Afro estrenó entre los años 170 y 160 a.C. sus seis obras, todas las cuales se han conservado. Según Suetonio (que es la fuente principal de que disponemos en relación a este autor) nació en Cartago y fue un esclavo liberto que se acabó introduciendo en los círculos de la nobleza romana. Hizo un viaje a Grecia, a cuyo regreso por mar habría muerto (159 a.C.).

Sus seis comedias son Andria, La suegra, Formión, El eunuco, Heautontimorumenos (El que se atormenta a sí mismo) y Los hermanos. Como Plauto, siguió el modelo de la Comedia Nueva griega, en especial a Menandro, a la que añadió un mayor tratamiento psicológico y realista de los personajes, lo que acerca un tanto sus comedias al drama, y un argumento de líneas más nítidas. Sus personajes son los mismos que los de Plauto (esclavos, parásitos, cortesanas, miles gloriosus...), pero se distinguen de ellos por la mayor intencionalidad moral de su tratamiento.… (mere)
 
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FundacionRosacruz | Mar 18, 2018 |

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