Talk:Plautus
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I changed the bit saying that plautus undermines our conceptions of master-slave relationships in the roman world. Comedies which reverse the social order are not rare things. Today or in the past. look at the Lysistrata. And, I think, by reversing the social order so completely, it's an affirmation of it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be strange or funny. This is why I think the original intepretation was misleading.
[edit] Varrus
Should the article mention Varrus and his Varronian canon? The fact that Plautus was very popular and had a lot of counterfeit plays with his namesake floating around is pretty important in my opinion. Varrus was an Augustan scholar who studied Platus' plays and made the Varronian Canon which was 3 lists.
1. Everyone agrees it's by Plautus -> 21 plays
2. Other scholars say it's not by Plautus, Varrus says it is
3. Other scholars say it is by Plautus, Varrus says it is not
- First of all, it is not "Varrus", it is "Varro", and he wasn't an Augustan scholar. You seem to have mixed up M. Terentius Varro, a Republican scholar, and his canon of 21 Plautus' plays, with M. Verrius Flaccus, a known scholar of Augustan period. Please verify this in your sources. 82.210.159.30 16:09, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
