Matthew Leigh is Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford

this book should be welcomed both for the contributions it makes to our understanding of this turbulent period in Republican history and for its eloquent insistence that we continue to examine and re-examine the relation between history and literature.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Plautus and Hannibal ; 3. The Captivi and the Paradoxes of Postliminium ; 4. City, Land, and Sea: New Comedy and the Discourse of Economies ; 5. Fatherhood and the Habit of Command: L. Aemilius Plautus and the Adelphoe

Matthew Leigh is Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford

this book should be welcomed both for the contributions it makes to our understanding of this turbulent period in Republican history and for its eloquent insistence that we continue to examine and re-examine the relation between history and literature.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Plautus and Hannibal ; 3. The Captivi and the Paradoxes of Postliminium ; 4. City, Land, and Sea: New Comedy and the Discourse of Economies ; 5. Fatherhood and the Habit of Command: L. Aemilius Plautus and the Adelphoe

Matthew Leigh is Fellow and Tutor in Classical Languages and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford

this book should be welcomed both for the contributions it makes to our understanding of this turbulent period in Republican history and for its eloquent insistence that we continue to examine and re-examine the relation between history and literature.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Plautus and Hannibal ; 3. The Captivi and the Paradoxes of Postliminium ; 4. City, Land, and Sea: New Comedy and the Discourse of Economies ; 5. Fatherhood and the Habit of Command: L. Aemilius Plautus and the Adelphoe