• Poenulus, also called The Little Carthaginian or The Little Punic Man, is a Latin comedic play for the early Roman theatre by Titus Maccius Plautus, probably...
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    puniques en transcription latine dans le Poenulus de Plaute [The Punic passages in Latin transcription in Poenulus by Plautus]. Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck...
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    translation of the voyage of Hanno the Navigator and a few lines in the Poenulus by Plautus. However, it is a proven fact that both Phoenicia and Carthage...
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    where a plot summary of Poenulus (i.e., "The Man from Carthage") is given. Its main characters are Punic. Eighteen lines from Poenulus are spoken in Punic...
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    Poenī (adj. poenicus, later pūnicus), comes from Greek Φοινίκη, Phoiníkē. Poenulus, a Latin comedic play written in the early 2nd century BC, appears to preserve...
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  • the other Byblian royal inscriptions. For later Punic: in Plautus' play Poenulus at the beginning of the fifth act. Ammonite – an extinct Canaanite dialect...
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    Punic Inscriptions. pp. 313–314 Baier, Thomas. 2004. Studien zu Plautus' Poenulus. p. 174 Friedrich, Johannes, Wolfgang Röllig, Maria Giulia Amadasi, and...
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    Performance of Roman Comedy (Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 65. In the Poenulus of Plautus (line 1416), a flute girl is dismissed as unattractive because...
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  • stereotypes, especially regarding foreigners, as can be seen within Plautus' Poenulus. Roman culture, which was heavily influenced by the Greeks, had also been...
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    have to be returned, and Toxilus and Sagaristio celebrate their victory. Poenulus ("The Little Carthaginian") The play is set in Calydon in central Greece...
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    Terence’s extant plays and Plautus’s comedies. In Plautus’s plays Trinummus, Poenulus, Persa, Milus Gloriosus and Curculio all end with pleas for applause. This...
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    Echoes and Voices (Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 55. See also Plautus, Poenulus 1292, as noted by Richard P. Saller, "The Social Dynamics of Consent to...
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    Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 — 184 BC), dramatist, composer of comedies: Poenulus, Miles Gloriosus, and other plays Quintus Fabius Pictor (3rd century BC)...
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    political leaders, was probably the fictional Hanno of the Roman comedy Poenulus ("The Little Carthaginian" or "Our Carthaginian Friend"), who is portrayed...
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    and became a celebrated Roman playwright. Also the Roman comedy entitled Poenulus ("The Carthaginian") of circa 190 BC by the popular dramatist Plautus (c...
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  • architect, sculptor and painter Hanno, a Carthaginian character in the play Poenulus by the Roman playwright Plautus Hanno, fictional character in The Boat...
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    War Mago, agricultural writer History of Tunisia Carthaginian coinage Poenulus ("The Puny Punic") – a comedy by Plautus, shows the vision the Romans had...
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  • house to the left of Senex. (Name based on Lycus, the pimp in Plautus's Poenulus.) Miles Gloriosus: (Latin for "boastful soldier", the archetype of the...
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    1935) IV 176, all cited by Grabka, "Christian Viaticum," pp. 8–9. Plautus, Poenulus 71 (late 3rd–early 2nd century BC), where a rich man lacks the viaticum...
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  • were raised earlier because our only source on a Punic trader is the play Poenulus and the Carthaginian presented there is a rather humble merchant. An important...
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  • the Ambrosian and Palatine Recensions of Plautus: A Study of the Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Stichus and Trinummus, was published as a Bryn Mawr College...
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    upon Menander's The Double Deceiver and Brotherly-Loving Men, but the Poenulus does not seem to be from The Carthaginian, nor the Mostellaria from The...
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  • instances of Y as in chyl/χυλ and even chil/χιλ for 𐤊𐤋 /kull/ "all" in Poenulus can be interpreted as a further stage in the vowel shift resulting in fronting...
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    Company, pp. 71–72 Cicero, De Lege Agraria contra Rullum ii. 13 Plautus, Poenulus Prolog. 49 Cicero, Philippics, xi. 12, xiv. 10 Dig. 50. tit. 13. s.l. Frag...
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  • servility. Cicero considered baking to be a lowly occupation. In Plautus' Poenulus bakers were said to work with prostitutes. Augustus was mocked for being...
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    only other substantial source for Phoenician-Punic are the excerpts in Poenulus, a play written by the Roman writer Plautus (see Punic language § Example...
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    playwright of this time, described the result of such a raid in his play Poenulus. Holleaux, Rome and the Mediterranean; 218–133 B.C., 190 Holleaux, Rome...
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  • a maid named Milphidippa. Adelphasium Fictional Character in Plautus's Poenulus. Adelphasium ('little sister') and Anterastilis ('rival lover'), taken...
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    "The Merchant", "The Persians", Amphitryon, Curculio, Truculentus and Poenulus; After Rost's death, they were collected and edited by Karl Heinrich Adelbert...
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  • Vol. 1. New York: Columbia UP, 1990. 489–496. Johnston, Patricia A. "Poenulus 1, 2 and Roman Women." Transactions of the American Philological Association...
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