In one play by this author, Gripus questions the ability of a play to affect change in its viewers and Daemones regains control of his daughter from her abductor Labrax.
In one play by this author, Gripus questions the ability of a play to affect change in its viewers and Daemones regains control of his daughter from her abductor Labrax. The first reference to a "tragicomedy" occurs in one play by this man, in which Alcumena gives birth to Hercules after Zeus seduces her as the title character. This author of Amphitryon and The Rope wrote about a slave's rescue of Calidorus's lover from the pimp Ballio. Pleusicles rescues his wife and his slave from (*) Pyrgopolynices, a "braggart soldier."In his most famous play, Phaedria and Lyconides receive the title object as dowry from the miserly Euclio after it is stolen by a greedy slave. For 10 points, name this Roman playwright of Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus, and The Pot of Gold.
In one play by this author, Gripus questions the ability of a play to affect change in its viewers and Daemones regains control of his daughter from her abductor Labrax.
Titus Maccius Plautus