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Plautus: Amphitryo | |||
2004 • 1-58510-091-9 • paper • 164 pages • 6 x 9 • $18.95 Plautus Amphitryo is an excellent example of Roman comedy. This new Latin edition and commentary by Anne Mahoney provides access to the work and its many complexities for the modern college student. | About the Author | Contents | Introduction | Reviews |
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The text includes 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. This Latin text is designed for use in intermediate courses in Latin language at the college level, or as a fourth year reader in secondary schools.
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Anne Mahoney teaches at Tufts University. Her Ph.D. is from Boston University. She oversaw the reissue and updating of Allen and Greenough and updated the metrical material in that key reference work.
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Using this Book There are several vocabulary lists. The main glossary gives principal parts and brief definitions for all the words in the text. This glossary is not a substitute for a good dictionary, but will get you started or will remind you of words you’ve forgotten. A shorter glossary gives the grammatical terms used in the Latin notes. Most of these are obvious, since the familiar English terms were borrowed from Latin, but some are a bit idiomatic. The “key terms” list gives words that are relatively frequent in Amphitryo but not common in Latin literature generally. That is, these are the words you may not know yet that are most useful to learn first. The proper names are also listed separately. Words in the main glossary are marked according to how often they occur in Amphitryo. The most frequent words make up 50% of the text; you probably already know all of these. They are marked with three asterisks. The next group brings the total up to 80%. You may wish to begin learning these words before you start reading; they occur five or more times in the play. They have two asterisks. The third group are the rest of the words that occur more than once, marked with one asterisk. Finally, words that only occur once in the play are not marked in the glossary. Many of these words are glossed in the running notes.
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(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, Universität Rostock, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Find the complete review here.
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Plautus: Amphitryo
