Plautus Cistellaria
For many plays of Plautus we have a complete and relatively secure text but know little. For a long time it was unknown that Plautus' Cistellaria is based on the.
Cistellaria Plautus Summeurry
URN: urn:cts:latinLit:phi0119.phi001 Author: Plautus, Titus Maccius Language: Latin. Cistellaria The Casket Comedy Plot Summary. A young man from Lemnos raped a girl from Sicyon; he returned to his own country, married, and had a daughter. The girl from Sicyon also gave birth to a daughter. A slave took the daughter and abandoned her, and observed in hiding what happened.
Maccius, better known simply as Plautus (actually a nickname meaning ‘flatfoot’), was, between c. 205 and 184 BCE, a writer of comedy plays, specifically the fabulae palliatae, which had a -themed storyline. His plays are the earliest complete surviving works from Latin and they are noted for adding even more outrageous comedy to traditional comic plays. Plautus is also celebrated as a developer of characterisation and a master of verbal acrobatics. Finally, the plays are a rich and valuable source of information regarding contemporary Roman society. Biographical Details Details of Plautus’ life are sketchy and unreliable; even his name may be simply a collection of nicknames attributed to a particular playwright.