The Nature of Roman Comedy
Subtitle: A Study in Popular Entertainment
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: June 1971
Format: Textbook Binding
ISBN-13: 9780691060828
Subjects: History and criticism; Latin drama (Comedy); Rome; History; Theater
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.