Lucius Seneca - Yale Required Reading - Collected Works (Vol. 2)

Plautus, Terence, Ennius, Catullus, Lucretius, Julius Caesar, Sallust, Cicero, Horace, Virgil, Tibullus, Propertius, Cornelius Nepos, The Metamorphoses, Augustus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Lucan, Persius, Petronius, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Quintilian, Juvenal, Suetonius, Apuleius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Claudian, Boethius

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Plautus: Plautus: Table of Contents

The Life and Work of Plautus

Aulularia

Amphitryon

Terence:

The Life and Work of Terence

Adelphoe

Ennius:

The Life and Work of Ennius

Annales

Catullus:

The Life and Work of Catullus

Poems and Fragments

Lucretius:

The Life and Work of Lucretius

On the Nature of Things

Julius Caesar:

The Life and Work of Julius Caesar

The Civil War

Sallust:

The Life and Work of Sallust

History of Catiline’s Conspiracy

Cicero:

The Life and Work of Cicero

De Oratore

Brutus

Horace:

The Life and Work of Horace

The Odes

The Epodes

The Satires

The Epistles

The Art of Poetry

Virgil:

The Life and Work of Virgil

The Aeneid

The Georgics

Tibullus:

The Life and Work of Tibullus

Elegies

Propertius:

The Life and Work of Propertius

Elegies

Cornelius Nepos:

The Life and Work of Cornelius Nepos

Lives of Eminent Commanders

Ovid:

The Life and Work of Ovid

The Metamorphoses

Augustus:

The Life and Work of Augustus

Res Gestae Divi Augusti

Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

The Life and Work of Seneca

Moral Letters to Lucilius

Lucan:

The Life and Work of Lucan

On the Civil War

Persius:

The Life and Work of Persius

Satires (Persius)

Petronius:

The Life and Work of Petronius

Satyricon

Martial:

The Life and Work of Martial

Epigrams

Pliny the Younger:

The Life and Work of Pliny the Younger

Letters

Tacitus:

The Life and Work of Tacitus

The Annals

Quintilian:

The Life and Work of Quintilian

Institutio Oratoria

Juvenal:

The Life and Work of Juvenal

Satires

Suetonius:

The Life and Work of Suetonius

The Twelve Caesars

Apuleius:

The Life and Work of Apuleius

The Metamorphoses

Ammianus Marcellinus:

The Life and Work of Ammianus Marcellinus

The Roman History

Saint Augustine of Hippo:

The Life and Work of Saint Augustine of Hippo

The Confessions

Claudian:

The Life and Work of Claudian

Against Eutropius

Boethius:

The Life and Work of Boethius

The Consolation of Philosophy

Plutarch:

The Life and Work of Plutarch

The Rise and Fall of Roman Supremacy:

Romulus

Poplicola

Camillus

Marcus Cato

Lucullus

Fabius

Crassus

Coriolanus

Cato the Younger

Cicero

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Titus Maccius Plautus (Flatfoot) was born at Sarsina, a town of Umbria, about 254 B. C. He went to Rome while still a boy, and seems to have earned so much as a servant or assistant of actors, that he was able to leave the city and engage in trade at some other place. His business venture was a failure; he lost his money, and returned to Rome, where he hired himself out to a miller, in whose service he was when he wrote his first three plays. His first appearance with a play was probably about 224 B. C. Further details of his life are unknown. He died in 184 B. C., at the age of about seventy years. He was, therefore, a younger contemporary of Livius Andronicus and Nævius, but older than Ennius and Pacuvius.

Of the plays of Plautus twenty are extant, besides extensive fragments of another. His total production is said to have been one hundred and thirty plays, though some of these were probably wrongly ascribed to him. The plots of his plays, as of those of Terence, are usually founded upon a love affair between a young man of good family and a girl of low position and doubtful character. The young man is aided by his servant or a parasite, but his father is opposed to his having anything to do with the girl. The girl’s mother or mistress usually aids the lovers, but often has to be won over by money, which the young man and his servant have to get from his father. Sometimes the characters mentioned are duplicated, and we have two pairs of lovers, two irate fathers, two cunning slaves, etc. Other typical characters are the procurer, the parasite, the boastful soldier, and a few more, who help to bring about amusing situations, and serve as the butt of many jokes. In the end, the lovers are usually united, and the girl turns out to be of good birth, often the long-lost daughter of one of the older men in the play. Sometimes other plots are chosen, as in the Amphitruo , which is founded on the story that Jupiter, when he visited Alcmene, used to take the form of her husband Amphitryon, and the fun of the play is caused by the confusion between the real husband and the disguised god. In a few plays the plot is less decidedly a love plot, but, as a general rule, the Roman comedies had love stories for their foundation. There is, however, room for considerable variety, as may be seen by a brief sketch of the contents of the extant plays of Plautus.

The Amphitruo , bringing the “Father of gods and men” into comic confusion with a mortal, and under very suspicious circumstances at that, is a burlesque, full of rather broad fun and amusing situations, perhaps the most interesting of all Latin comedies. In the Asinaria , the Casina , and the Mercator , father and son are rivals for the affection of the same girl. Of these three, the Casina is the worst in its indecency, while the other two lack interest. These plays, however, like all the comedies of Plautus, are full of animal spirits, plays on words, and clever dialogue. The Aulularia , or Pot of Gold , has a plot of little interest, but is famous for the brilliant and lifelike presentation of the chief character, the old miser Euclio. The Captivi , one of the best of the plays, has for its subject the friendship between a master and his slave. There are no female characters, and the piece is entirely free from the coarseness and immorality which disfigure most of the others. The Trinummus , or Three-penny Piece , has also friendship, not love, as its leading motive, though it ends with a betrothal. This play also is free from coarseness, and gives an attractive picture of the good old days when friend was true to friend. The