- Introduction
- Greek Drama
- Greek Tragedy
- Origins (Attic and Dorian) of Comedy
- Old, Middle, and New Attic Comedy
- Roman Drama
- Native Italic Drama
- Earliest Latin Writers of Drama
- Plautus’ Life
- Plautus’ Plays: Dates, Greek Tone, Contaminatio
- Roman Drama after Plautus
- Later Influence of Roman Comedy
- Stage and Production
- Greek Theaters
- Roman Theaters and Stage Setting
- Production: Occasions, Actors, Costumes, Music (Cantica and Diuerbia), Instruments
- Act and Scene Divisions, Didascaliae, Argumenta, Prologues
- The Miles: Date, Greek Original, Plot, Unified by Palaestrio, Moralizing Passages, Entrances and Exits, Roman Allusions, Later Influence
- Meters
- Rhythm, Ictus and Accent, Length of Syllables, Metrical Substitution, Metrical feet, Caesura and Diaeresis
- Trochaic Septenarius
- Iambic Senarius and Septenarius
- Anapaestic Septenarius
- Index of Meters
- Language
- General
- Prosody: accent and ictus, elision, prodelision of es and est, crasis, hiatus, synizesis, iambic shortening, suppression of final -ĕ, final -s need not make position, shift of ictus on the same forms
- Words Borrowed from Greek
- Poetic Devices: alliteration, assonance, wordplay, metaphors
- Constructions: genitives, parataxis, parenthetical words, directional adverbs in -ō, fui for sum in perfect passive
- Stem Variations: -ö- for -ë-, -ei- for -1-, -1- for -4-, -ü- for -4-, -cl-/-pl- for -eul-/-pul-, -ös and -óm for -as and -urn, deuces and cassabant, ap-/op- for ab-/lob-
- Case Forms of Declensions: mers and lacte, -at for -ae, -urn for -orum, -din the ablative and accusative
- Pronouns: intensive endings, forms of is, quis feminine, qui ablative and adverb, demonstratives with -ce, ecce, ecquis
- Verb Stems: contracted perfects, -ss- in perfect, -s- in future and perfect, aio, fio
- Verbal Endings: -ier in passive infinitive, -ibo in future, dic, due, fac, and fer, cëdó, -i- in perfect, c-cm
- Forms of Sum
- Text
- Manuscripts and Text of Plautus
- Editions on Which This Edition Is Based
- Bibliographical Suggestions
- Bibliography
- General
- Translations
- Theater
- New Comedy
- Roman Comedy
- Plautine Chronology
- Plautus’ Originality
- Dramatic Technique
- Language
- Meter
- Manuscripts
- Later Influence
- Greek Drama
- Miles Gloriosus: Text and Notes
Miles Gloriosus
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Publication Date: 03/25/1997
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