Eunuchus (The Eunuch) is a comedy written by the 2nd century BC Roman playwright Terence featuring a complex plot of rape and reconciliation. It was Terence's...
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the Eunuchus was "published third" (edita tertium). Some scholars have explained the discrepancy by positing an unsuccessful production of Eunuchus in...
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food and (alcoholic) drink, love will not ensue; from Terence's comedy Eunuchus (161 BC) sine ira et studio without anger and fondness Thus, impartially...
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many of his plays.[citation needed] Menander found many Roman imitators. Eunuchus, Andria, Heauton Timorumenos and Adelphi of Terence (called by Caesar "dimidiatus...
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film directed by Teddy Yip Eunuchs (film), a 2007 British documentary Eunuchus, a comedy by the 2nd century BCE Roman playwright Terence Eunice (disambiguation)...
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known. Helenius Acron is known to have written on Terence (Adelphi and Eunuchus at least) and Horace. These commentaries on Horace are now lost but are...
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and art as Alexander's rather than Ptolemy's lover. In Terence's play Eunuchus, there is a female protagonist who is a courtesan named Thaïs after the...
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and ekhein ("having a well-disposed state of mind"). In Latin, the words eunuchus, spado (Greek: σπάδων spadon), and castratus were used to denote eunuchs...
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effect beyond the legal profession, as is clear from a passage in the Eunuchus of Terence, a play usually dated to 161 BC. The character Chaerea enjoins...
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Gloriosus. An example in Terence of the alazon character is Thraso in the Eunuchus. Like Pyrgopolinices in the Miles Gloriosus, Thraso is attended by a flatterer...
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