Plautus

Supplemental reader in the Oerberg Lingua Latina series, reprinted in a Focus edition (2013). This text includes an abridged and annotated edition of Plautus' comedy Amphitryon.

Amphitryo by Plautus is an excellent example of Roman comedy. This Latin edition includes commentary in English, alongside a supplement written in the fifteenth century that replaces the scenes lost from the original. Notes are provided on facing pages and are in Latin. In addition to the text and extensive commentary, this edition contains a vocabulary section and an introduction...

The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205–184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. This first volume of a new Loeb edition of all 21 of Plautus's extant comedies presents Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, and...

A new anthology, bringing together four masterpieces of classical comedy in one volume. From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays—Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken...