Plautus (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Plautus is remembered only for his plays.
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Writing in the second century c.e., Aulus Gellius recorded that 130 plays of Plautus were in circulation, of which twenty-one were agreed on by all as genuine plays of Plautus, at least according to Marcus Terentius Varro, the most respected scholar of the first century b.c.e. It is this set of twenty-one that survives, though the twenty-first, the Vidularia (The Tale of a Travelling Bag), is only four pages of fragments. In addition to the twenty complete plays,...
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