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  • An interpolated line of Terence at Cicero, De finibus 2.14

  • P. G. McC. Brown
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 47 / Issue 2 / December 1997
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2009, pp. 583-584
    Print publication:
    December 1997

  • Hanc quoque ‘iucunditatem’, si vis, transfer in animum (‘iuvare’ enim in utroque dicitur, ex eoque ‘iucundum’), rnodo intellegas inter ilium qui dicat

    Tanta laetitia auctus sum ut nihil constet

    et eum qui

    Nunc demum mihi animus ardet,

    quorum alter laetitia gestiat, alter dolore crucietur, esse ilium medium [Quamquam haec inter nos nuper notitia admodum est] qui nee laetetur nee angatur, itemque inter eum qui potiatur corporis expetitis voluptatibus et eum qui crucietur summis doloribus esse eum qui utroque careat.

  • Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy1

  • P. G. McC. Brown
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 43 / Issue 1 / May 1993
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2009, pp. 189-205
    Print publication:
    May 1993

  • Writing of Terence's Andria (‘The Girl from Andros’) in 1952, Duckworth said: ‘In the Andria the second love affair is unusual; Charinus’ love for a respectable girl whose virtue is still intact has been considered an anticipation of a more modern attitude towards love and sex. More frequently in Plautus and Terence the heroine, if of respectable parentage, has been violated before the opening of the drama (Aulularia, Adelphoe), or she is a foreigner, a courtesan, or a slave girl' (Duckworth (1952), p. 158). Perhaps in 1993 it does not seem quite so ‘modern’ that Charinus is not only in love with a respectable virgin but wishes to marry her.

  • Athenian Attitudes to Rape and Seduction: The Evidence of Menander, Dyskolos 289–293

  • P. G McC. Brown
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 41 / Issue 2 / December 1991
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2009, pp. 533-534
    Print publication:
    December 1991

  • In his article ‘Did the Athenians Regard Seduction as a Worse Crime than Rape?’, CQ 40 (1990), 370–7, Edward M. Harris rightly casts doubt on the value of Lysias 1.30–5, which has generally been accepted as evidence that the Athenians did indeed regard seduction as the worse of the two crimes. Euphiletos in this speech is defending himself on a charge of murder, and, as Harris says (p. 375), ‘Euphiletus’ presentation of the Athenian statutes regarding rape and seduction is dictated by the rhetorical constraints of his case. It is not a reflection of widely held social attitudes.'

  • Menander's Dramatic Technique and the Law of Athens

  • P. G. McC. Brown
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 33 / Issue 2 / December 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2009, pp. 412-420
    Print publication:
    December 1983

  • ‘Menander has set up a confrontation between this law [the law about epikleroi] and love… He wants the audience to regard the law as stupid and wrong… Surely one of Menander's purposes in writing this play was to make the Athenians consider seriously whether the law ought to be changed.’ Thus Professor D. M. MacDowell in the concluding paragraph of his article ‘Love versus the Law: an Essay on Menander's Aspis’. A similar view was already implicit in E. Karabelias' treatment of the play as indicative of the general attitude to this law in Athens in Menander's day: ‘A n'en point douter, l'épiclérat est ressenti, á l'epoque de Ménandre, comme une anomalie intolérable pour les mceurs de la societe athénienne à la fin du ive s.av.n.è L'épiclérat est odieux et ridicule… L'hostilité envers l'épiclérat est done un signe des temps’. And Professor E. G. Turner has written: ‘it is hard to imagine that the institution of the epiclerate emerged in good standing from this derisory treatment’.

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