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Front Cover 1 When A Young Man Falls in Love 3 Copyright Page 4 Contents 5 Abbreviations 7 1. Introduction 9 2. Rape 21 1. Rapes which lead to marriage of rapist and victim 22 2. Rapes whose revelation allows marriage of victim's daughter 31 3. Premarital rapes 35 4. Characterisitics of the rape motif in New Comedy 43 5. Sources of the rape motif in New Comedy 50 6. Terence's Eunuchus (The Eunuch) 54 3. Mothers and daughters 59 1. Liaisons ending in marriage of the young woman with her lover 61 2. Liaisons not ending in marriage of the young woman with her lover 71 3. Liaisons as background to the play 76 4. Liaisons refused or denied 79 5. Conclusions 82 4. Slavers and slaves 84 1. Some background 84 2. Plays ending in marriage 86 3. Plays that do not end in marriage 93 4. Menander's Epitrepontes (The Arbitration) 107 5. Conclusions 109 5. Independent women 115 1. The plays 118 2. Conclusions 144 6. Final thoughts 148 Appendix 1: Lucian's Conversations of Hetairai 152 Appendix 2 154 A : Rape in other plays of Menander 154 B: Rape in other Greek New Comedies 156 C: Were rapists required by law to marry their victims? 156 D: Rape in Caecilius' Titthe (The Wet-Nurse) and Davos 157 E

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Author

Vincent J. Rosivach

Published

2019

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction