Nature of Roman Comedy 
Subtitle: A Study in Popular Entertainment
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 1, 1971
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780691013039
Subjects: General; Literary Criticism
First sentence: THE traditional date of the founding of Rome was 753 B.C. and more than five hundred years elapsed before a Greek named Livius Andronicus adapted a Greek tragedy and a Greek comedy for presentation on the Roman stage.