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Plautus: Curculio (Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions) by Gellar-Goad, T. H. M. ;Marshall, C. W. ;Storey, Ian C. ;Wright, Matthew ;Christenson, David ;Goldberg, Sander M. is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This is the first book-length study of Plautus' shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character (“The Weevil”) bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp to secure the freedom of the enslaved girl his patron has fallen for while keeping her out of the clutches of a megalomaniacal soldier. It all takes place in the Greek city Epidaurus, the most important site for the worship of the healing god Aesculapius, an unusual setting for an ancient comedy. But

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Author

Gellar-Goad, T. H. M. ;Marshall, C. W. ;Storey, Ian C. ;Wright, Matthew ;Christenson, David ;Goldberg, Sander M.

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350079748

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, History, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25