Plautus, Double Bind

I. Lingua Latina

• Salvete, Salve
• Quid agitis?, Quid agis? optime, bene, satis bene, male
• Romam a principio reges habuerunt (Tacitus)
• vae victis (Livy)
• Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque (Ennius)
• Carthago delenda est (Cato the Elder)
• prandi, potavi, scortum accubui (Plautus)

SOME BUSINESS

• Discussion groups:
  

1. Tuesday 2-3, PHR 2.114
2. Wednesday 6-7 WRW 113

• Information Session for Rome Institute of Liberal Arts Summer courses
  
  Tuesday, January 31, 3:30 pm,
  MEZ 1.210 
  

Left over from Thursday: The Creation of a Mediterranean Empire

II. Plautus, Double Bind (Menaechmi)

• Roman Literature in the Middle Republic 
• Roman Theater (tibia music)
  
• The play

1. Characters (Clueless 1 and 2, Diddley, Smug, Dovey, Loveykins, Antiquides, Dr. Klyster)
2. Plot

• How is Plautus like us? Influence and similarities
• How is Double Bind different from our comedies?
  
• How is Plautus Roman?

III. For Thursday: Questions to think about when reading Terence, The Brothers

• How is this play like and unlike Plautus' Double Bind?
• Demea and Micio have opposite views about education. Who do you think is right? Who would a Roman of Terence's day think is right?