| ROMAN COMEDY. T. MACCIUS PLAUTUS, ABOUT 254 TO 184 b.c. | | Flourishing era of Roman Comedy | 153 | | How far any claim to originality? | 154 | | Disparaging judgment of later Roman critics | 155 | | Connection with earlier Saturae | 156 | | Naevius and Plautus popular poets | 157 | | Facts in the life of Plautus | 158 | | Attempt to fill up the outline from his works | 160 | | Familiarity with town-life | 161 | | Traces of maritime adventure | 162 | | Life of the lower and middle classes represented in his plays | 163 | | Love of good living | 164 | | Love of money | 166 | | Artistic indifference | 166 | | Knowledge of Greek | 167 | | Influence of the spirit of his age | 167 | | Dramas adaptations of outward conditions of Athenian New Comedy | 169 | | Manner and spirit, Roman and original | 172 | | Indications of originality in his language | 173 | | " ""in his Roman allusions and national characteristics | 174 | | Favourite plots of his plays | 178 | | Pseudolus, Bacchides, Miles Gloriosus, Mostellaria | 179 | | Aulularia, Trinummus, Menaechmi, Rudens, Captivi, Amphitryo | 182 | | Mode of dealing with his characters | 191 | | Moral and political indifference of his plays | 192 | | Value as a poetic artist | 195 | | Power of expression by action, rhythm, diction | 200 | |
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