Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor) --- The play has presented academics with some problems. Firstly it is not entirely clear whether Heauton Timorumenos is Terence's second or third play. More importantly, due to the scant survival of Menander's play of the same name, there is no simple way to judge how much Terence's version is translation and how much is invention.
It is set in a village in the countryside of Attica. (wikipedia)
Publius Terentius Afer (c. 195/185 – c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of berber descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived.
One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and nothing of that which is human is alien to me." This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos. (wikipedia) (more than one editions, ebook or Epub, accessible via scribd)
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