Drawing by Albrecht Dürer of a scene from Eunuchus.
Eunuchus (The Eunuch) is a comedy written by the 2nd century BC Roman playwright Terence featuring a complex plot of rape and reconciliation. It was Terence's most successful play during his lifetime. Suetonius notes how the play was staged twice in a single day and won Terence 8,000 sesterces.[1] The play is a loose translation of one written by Menander in Greek.[2]
The play was first performed at the Megalesian Games in Rome in the spring of 161 BC. It is the fourth of Terence's six plays.[3]
Eunuchus (The Eunuch) is a comedy written by the 2nd century BC Roman playwright Terence featuring a complex plot of rape and reconciliation. It was Terence's...
the Eunuchus was "published third" (edita tertium). Some scholars have explained the discrepancy by positing an unsuccessful production of Eunuchus in...
many of his plays.[citation needed] Menander found many Roman imitators. Eunuchus, Andria, Heauton Timorumenos and Adelphi of Terence (called by Caesar "dimidiatus...
Gloriosus. An example in Terence of the alazon character is Thraso in the Eunuchus. Like Pyrgopolinices in the Miles Gloriosus, Thraso is attended by a flatterer...
and ekhein ("having a well-disposed state of mind"). In Latin, the words eunuchus, spado (Greek: σπάδων spadon), and castratus were used to denote eunuchs...
comes from 2 literary sources: Plautus's miles gloriosus and Terence's Eunuchus. The first famous Captain, Capitano Spavento, appeared in Francesco Andreini's...
Roman comedies, in the Miles Gloriosus figure, such as Thraso in Terence's Eunuchus. Pistol is the "Elizabethan version of the miles gloriosus, the braggart...
known. Helenius Acron is known to have written on Terence (Adelphi and Eunuchus at least) and Horace. These commentaries on Horace are now lost but are...
(195/185 BC — 159 BC), comic dramatist: The Brothers, The Girl from Andros, Eunuchus, The Self-Tormentor Quintus Ennius (239 BC — c. 169 BC), poet Marcus Pacuvius...
rondeaux, etc. His first serious work was a translation or adaptation of the Eunuchus of Terence (1654). At this time the patron of French writing was the Superintendent...
Senate disengages from the dispute. The Roman playwright Terence's plays Eunuchus (The Eunuch) and Phormio are first performed. Envoys of Judas Maccabeus...
during the reign of Vespasian. List of Roman gentes Chase, p. 109. Terence, Eunuchus, prologue 7; Heuton Timorumenus, prologue 30; Phormio, prologue 4. Aulus...
no complete man may go, is distantly based on the classic Roman comedy Eunuchus by Terence. The upper-class town rake Harry Horner begins a campaign to...
Thebes. "I sang of Thebes." Purg. XXI, 92. Thaïs: A courtesan in Terence's Eunuchus. Perhaps misled by Cicero's commentary (De amicitia XXVI, 98), he places...
Ébahis (1560) Jean Antoine de Baïf L'Eunuque (1565), a version of Terence's Eunuchus Le Brave (1567) – a version of Plautus's Miles gloriosus Jean de la Taille...
takes care of the Bathhouse in Novigrad, which is open to both sexes. Eunuchus (The Eunuch) is a comedy by the Roman playwright Terence. Several tales...
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