Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This work arises from the question whether it is possible for a Latinist to be truly such without Knowing the influence of the ancient Greek civilization on Latin literature, and particularly on the theatrical genre, that has inspired the theater of all time. The examination of Menander in the critical view of the authors Quintilian and Gellius shows that it would be impossible to be a true Latinist without knowing the Greek ancestry of Latin Comedies, as for the Plocium of Caecilius Statius and the Plókion of Menander. The parallel between the fragments of the comedy Plocium by Caecilius and Plókion by Menander confirms that only the comparative deepening of the Greek/Latin theatrical production can provide the key both for scientific research on theatre, both for the transmission of the human values represented in it to the new generation of scholars. With this work Consoli also intends to recompose the separation of studies between text and theatrical performance, believing that even a fragment can constitute a theatrical scene.
Source: Humanities and Social Sciences
Author: Consoli Elvira
Institutions: University of Salento, University of Turin
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411840527