Manta Agis
Manta Agis

Author: Beverley Davis

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2023-03-31

Total Pages: 912

ISBN-13: 1398466751

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What would you do if saving your people meant working with the enemy? Dr Catherine Sommers and Commander John Blue Eagle get that opportunity, but what if the most powerful man in the Empire has an ulterior motive? And what if between you and the destruction of everything you love is one man who believes he is sent by God to save humanity itself? The Manta Agis is the Empire’s most powerful warship, an intergalactic aircraft carrier that will bend time and space to go on the hunt of a lifetime against an enemy that gives no quarter and destroys all it meets, an enemy from the unknown regions of the galaxy? When the Agis returns home, the old enemies must become allies or die.

Plautus: Pseudolus
Plautus: Pseudolus

Author: David Christenson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-07-09

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1108889344

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Pseudolus of all Plautus' comedies most fully reveals its author's metapoetics. As its eponymous clever slave telegraphs his every move to spectators, Pseudolus highlights the aesthetic, social, and performative priorities of Plautine comedy: brilliant linguistic play, creative appropriation of comic tradition, interrogation of convention and social norms, the projection of an air of improvisation and a fresh comic universe, and exploration of dramatic mimesis itself. The extensive Introduction analyses Plautus' delightful comedy as a stage-performance, the comic playwright's translation and adaptation practices, his innovative deployment of language and metrical and musical virtuosity, as well as the play's transmission and reception. In addition to detailed elucidation of the Latin text, the Commentary examines Pseudolus as a lens into Roman slave society at the time of its debut at the Megalensian festival of 191 BCE. The edition engages throughout with current criticism and issues of interest to both students and scholars.