Terenz’ Hecyra
Spiel der Voreiligkeiten
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-08-08Keywords:
Roman comedy, Greek literature, Terence, Hecyra, rashnessAbstract
Rashness was one of the most urgent themes and most poignant reproaches in Greek experience and reasoning from the 5th century BC onwards: Thucydides complained of rash actions during the Peloponnesian War that led to disaster; Sophocles showed Deianeira rashly sending the lethal garment to her husband on his return with Iole, and Plato made his Socrates expose the rashness of his interlocutors’ assertions again and again. Small wonder, then that Comedy, especially the New Comedy, seized upon this all-pervading deficiency, as can be seen for example in Menander’s Perikeiromene and Epitrepontes, where impulsive young men nearly destroy their lives by acting and judging precipitately. Roman Comedy naturally followed suit, for example Terence in Heautontimorumenos as well as in his Hecyra, where he followed Apollodorus: time and again his characters assert what they do not know for certain and time and again they act according to unwarranted assumptions, a pivotal theme that hitherto seems to have been underrated.
Downloads
References
Barsby, J. 1999. Terence Eunuchus, Cambridge.
Bentley, R. 1856. P. Terentii Afri Comoediae, London 1856.
Blume, H.-D. 1998. Menander, Darmstadt.
Büchner, K. 1974. Das Theater des Terenz, Heidelberg.
Carney, T.F. 1963. P. Terenti Afri Hecyra, Pretoria.
Denzler, B. 1968. Der Monolog bei Terenz, Zürich.
Dunsch, B. 2005. ‘Sat habeo, si cras fero: Zur dramatischen Funktion der temporalen Deixis bei Plautus, Terenz und Menander’, WJA 29, 123–150.
Fehl, P. 1938. Die interpolierte Rezension des Terenztextes, Berlin.
Flashar, H. 2000. Sophokles, Dichter im demokratischen Athen, München. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17104/9783406692727
Fraenkel, E. 1957. Horace, Oxford.
Gilula, D. 1979/1980. ‘Terence’s Hecyra: A delicate balance of suspense and dramatic irony’, Scripta Classica Israelica 5, 37–157. DOI: https://doi.org/10.71043/sci.v5i.4789
Goldberg, S.M. 2013. Terence, Hecyra, Cambridge.
Ireland, S. 1990. Terence, The mother-in-law, Warminster. 40 Ausführlich hierzu Maurach 1968, bes. 12 und 23f.
Jachmann, G. 1924. Die Geschichte des Terenztextes im Altertum, Basel.
Kamerbeek, J.C. 1967. The plays of Sophocles IV, The Oedipus Tyrannos, Leiden.
Knorr, O. 2013. ‘Hecyra’, in A companion to Terence, eds. A. Augoustakis & A.Traill, Malden, Massachussetts, 295–317. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118301975.ch16
Kruschwitz, P. 2004. Terenz, Hildesheim.
Kühner, R. & C. Stegmann 19624. Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache, Darmstadt.
Landmann, G.P. 19762. Thukydides. Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges, Zürich & München.
Lindsay, W.M. & Kauer, R. eds. 1926. P. Terenti Afri Comoediae, Oxford.
Lowe, J.C.B. 1983. ‘Terentian originality in the Phormio and Hecyra’, Hermes 111, 438–442.
Marouzeau, J. 1949. Térence, Paris.
Maurach, G. 1968. ‘Interpretationen zur attischen Komödie’, Acta Class 11, 1–24.
Maurach, G. 1972. ‘Bemerkungen zu lateinischen Autoren’, Acta Classica 15, 53–69.
Maurach, G. 2005. Kleine Geschichte der antiken Komödie, Darmstadt.
Maurach, G. 2011. ‘Anmerkungen zu Plautus’ Captivi’, Hermes 139, 431–442. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25162/hermes-2011-0034
Reinhardt, K. 19412. Sophokles, Frankfurt am Main, 1941.
Stella, S. 1936. P. Terenzio Afro, Hecyra. Introduzione e commento, Milano.
Victor, B. 1996. ‘A problem of method in the history of texts and its implications for the manuscript tradition of Terence’, Revue d’histoires des textes 26, 269–287. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3406/rht.1996.1448
Zucker, F. 1944. ‘Socia unanimans’, RhM 92:3, 193–217. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1944.02850040017004
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2015 Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, and the authors.Volumes 16–18 (2023–2025): All text is published with immediate open access under the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0. All images are used with permission from the rights holders, credited in the captions, and explicitly excluded from the CC BY license.
Copyright: Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, and the authors.
Volumes 1–15 (2008–2022): These issues were made openly available as PDFs six months after the printed edition was published. No Creative Commons license applies to these volumes.
Copyright: Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, and the authors.
