Versions of Slavery in the Captivi of Plautus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9288492 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William G Thalmann (University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 112-145 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ramus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-671X • E-ISSN: 2202-932X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0048671x00002113 |
| OpenAlex | W37746176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 63 |
| References cited | 13 |
‘Noble’: the invariable response of readers and critics of the Captiui . Read almost any modern work on this play and you will not have to wait long for that word. Up it pops, reflexively. The slave Tyndarus' readiness to stay in captivity, risking and in the event undergoing a gruesome punishment to free his master Philocrates, the master keeping his side of the bargain and returning to Aetolia to redeem Tyndarus in exchange for Hegio's son Philopolemus when he could as easily have stayed home (why should he care about a slave?)—surely actions that reflect refinements of character and feeling so unlike the routine skulduggery of New Comedy. We all know Lessing's famous eulogy on this play. That was determined by his own personal and cultural situation. But most critics in this century, to judge from the regularity with which they cite the Epilogue, agree with Lessing that this is a play in which ‘the good become better’ ( ubi boni meliores fiant , 1034)
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Comedy · Eulogy · Event (particle physics · Feeling · Literature · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Punishment (psychology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Analyses · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Linguistic Interaction in Roman Comedy
The Cambridge World History Of Slavery
Slaves as Active Subjects
Loves and elegy
The Helots
Archaeology and Greek slavery
Slaves in Greek literary culture
Resisting slavery at Rome
Introduction
Music and Metre
Slavery in the Roman Republic
Tibullus in first place
Militia amoris
Roman Comedy and the Poetics of Adaptation
Slaves and Roman Comedy
The puella
Slavery and the Greek family
Slavery in the late Roman world
Caius Cornelius Gallus
The poeta-amator, nequitia and recusatio
Fathers and Sons
Slave labour and Roman society
Gods and Roman Comedy
Slavery Under the Principate
Translation and imitation of classical elegy in the French eighteenth century
Russian elegists and Latin lovers in the long eighteenth century
Slavery in the Hellenistic world
Stage Action in Roman Comedy
Roman Comedy in Early Modern Italy and France
Classical Athens
Slavery and economy in the Greek world
Greek elegy
The Roman slave supply
The Language of Roman Comedy
Resistance among chattel slaves in the classical Greek world
Ovid the love elegist
Latin love elegy and other genres
Roman Comedy in Germany (from Humanism to Lessing)
Time, place and political background
Roman Comedy on Stage and Screen in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Metatheatre
Breaking the rules
Roman Comedy in Early Modern England
Propertius
Latin love elegy in Late Antiquity
Slavery and Roman material culture
Latin precursors
Comic Technique
‘The woman’
The Manuscripts and Illustration of Plautus and Terence
The slave supply in classical Greece
Slavery in the ancient Near East
Mothers and Whores
The Politics of Roman Comedy
Slavery and Roman literary culture
Slavery and the Roman family
The Latin elegiac couplet
Performance and Identity in the Classical World
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
The Cambridge World History of Slavery
Enslaved Persons and Their Multiple Identities in Ancient Societies
On Captives under the Principate
| Unique citing works | 63 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2.86 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2022 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 63 |