In Book 1 of his Confessions, Augustine criticizes his teachers for making him read one of this author's works about a "lewd youth" imitating "Jove."
In Book 1 of his Confessions, Augustine criticizes his teachers for making him read one of this author's works about a "lewd youth" imitating "Jove." Another work by this author, which ends with a gentleman from the city being convinced by a relative to marry a neighboring widow, Sostrata, was adapted by Thomas Shadwell as The Squire of Alsatia. The line "I'm a man, I don't regard any man's affairs as not concerning me," is spoken in the first act of one of his plays by the pompous Chremes, who is repeatedly deceived by the servant Syrus. Several of this man's prologues were written to be delivered by the actor Ambivius Turpo. This author's play The Self-Tormentor may be based on a work of Menander, while plays by Apollodorus of Carystus served as the basis for this man's The Mother-in-Law and Phormio. For 10 points, identify this playwright, a Carthaginian-born slave who wrote the The Eunuch.
In Book 1 of his Confessions, Augustine criticizes his teachers for making him read one of this author's works about a "lewd youth" imitating "Jove."
Terence [or Publius Terentius Afer]