Eunuchus (The Eunuch) is a comedy written by the 2nd century BC Roman playwright Terence featuring a complex plot of rape and reconciliation. It was Terence's most successful play …

Eunuchs have been documented in several ancient and medieval societies, including the Byzantine Empire, Imperial China, the Ottoman Empire, and various Middle Eastern cultures. …

In the Eunuchus he added to Menander’s Eunouchos two characters, a soldier and his “parasite”—a hanger-on whose flattery of and services to his patron were rewarded with free …

We cannot wonder that the Eunuchus should have been the most popular of all Terence's plays: for here there is the nearest approach to the "Plautini sales," which were the true Roman …

Feb 20, 2022 · Eunuchus, trans. John Benson Rose, Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer (1870) (transcription project) This work is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at …

The most striking scene is the “siege” scene, in which Thraso and Gnatho, coming to recover the girl with a motley army of cooks and slaves, are repulsed by Thais; also good are the early …

Terence's Eunuchus - his most successful play during his lifetime based on a work by Menander. Terence's comedy features a complex plot of rape and reconciliation. A new, downloadable …

1 Colman has the following remark on this Play: "This seems to lave been the most popular of all the Comedies of Terence. Suetonius and Donatus both inform us that it was acted with the …

eunuchus abiit: quam ob rem? [aut] quid factumst? taces? PY. quid tibi ego dicam misera? illum eunuchum negant fuisse. TH. quis fuit igitur? PY. iste Chaerea. TH. qui Chaerea? PY. iste …

Feb 19, 2022 · In general, in the ancient Mediterranean world, eunuchs were heavily socially marginalized. They were often of enslaved status and, because of their castration, they were …