While Moseley and Hammond’s Menaechmi would still be my choice for a third-year class, I look forward to a chance to try Lawall and Quinn in the second year. The brief general introduction and occasional questions at the foot of the page concerning evaluation or interpretation of scenes are helpful. Grammatical notes are kept to a minimum, and often a translation is made to serve, but more elaborate explanations are probably best left to the teacher at this level.
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I tend to find the very full vocabularies, which may define forty words for fifteen lines of text, cumbersome, but students may feel frustrated if they cannot check at a glance even obvious terms such as odor or amator. (6) It is indebted to two Plautine plays in particular: Menaechmi and Amphitruo.The former provides the theme of confusion of identity between twins (Menaechmus and Sosicles) plus some of the stock characters such as the comic courtesan, while the latter. As for the overall format, preferences are probably a matter of taste. But I am being captious the editing on the whole is quite careful, and errors are few. Macrons are employed in the text, but not in the vocabularies, to mark long vowels. In the back is a lexicon of words prescribed by the second-year College Boards Examination, and these are not given opposite the text. Una fabula dicit eum a Iove forma aquilae abduci ut baiulus poculorum in Olympo Monte mereat. Filius est Troi Dardaniensis, ex quo Troia appellari putabatur, et Callirrhoae naiadis. All Greek and Roman drama is written in verse, some of it designed to be sung. Ganymedes (Graece ), sive Catamitus,1 in mythologia Graeca est heros divinus cuius patria fuit Troia.
The play’s clever plot, which hinges on the confusion caused by mistaken identity, was borrowed by Shakespeare for his Comedy of Errors. Lawall and Quinn’s Menaechmi has facing text and running vocabulary, with entries grouped by line number. Plautus’ source for the Menaechmi (The Twins Named Menaechmus) is unknown. Lawall and Quinn’s edition of Plautus’ Menaechmi is aimed at second and third year high school classes or second and third semester college courses.
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