Amphitryo

Description

Plautus Amphitryo is an excellent example of Roman comedy. This Latin edition includes commentary in English, a supplement, written in the fifteenth century, in place of the scenes lost from the original, notes are on facing pages and in Latin. Besides text and extensive commentary, this edition contains a vocabulary and an introduction to the poetic meter of the play.

Anne Mahoney is Lecturer in Classics at Tufts University and holds a Ph.D. from Boston University. She has published articles and reviews on Greek poetry, particularly drama; and on Latin poetry, from Saturnians to the nineteenth century. She also has overseen the revision of Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Focus Publishing and updated the metrical material in that key reference work.

(Ann Mahoney) has produced a text and commentary of Plautus Amphitryo for students of Latin intermediate courses. The readers are intended to have finished their textbooks in elementary courses and to have started reading Latin literature. For them (Mahoney) offers a very helpful tool... ...her prose is very clear and appropriate for young students. The introduction, text and Latin notes, and vocabulary lists taken together are comparable to a very good German Schulausgabe. Even the quite ambitious notes in Latin should be taken as a model for everyone who is about to write such a Schulausgabe. ...Although, there are a few points that can be criticized, M. has managed to write a comprehensible and thought-provoking commentary for inexperienced readers. -- A. Fuchs, Universitat Rostock, Bryn Mawr Classical Review