The Poenulus prologue begins boisterously, with mock authoritarianism and comic incitement to riot (urging the pedisequi to storm the bakeshops, 41-43), but gradually calms the holiday audience and focuses their attentions and energies on the narrative of recognition and romance.
Especially valuable on the element of competition (alluded to in Poenulus 36ff.) is E. Jory, "Publilius Syrus and the Element of Competition in the Theatre of the Republic," BICS Supplement 51 (1988) 73-81.
I believe that the Poenulus prologue is playable as it stands; my argument against the analyst view is the interpretation of the prologue's dynamics which follows and will consequently not attempt to answer Jocelyn point by point.
The Poenulus prologue begins boisterously, with mock authoritarianism and comic incitement to riot (urging the pedisequi to storm the bakeshops, 41-43), but gradually calms the holiday audience and focuses their attentions and energies on the narrative of recognition and romance.
Especially valuable on the element of competition (alluded to in Poenulus 36ff.) is E. Jory, "Publilius Syrus and the Element of Competition in the Theatre of the Republic," BICS Supplement 51 (1988) 73-81.
I believe that the Poenulus prologue is playable as it stands; my argument against the analyst view is the interpretation of the prologue's dynamics which follows and will consequently not attempt to answer Jocelyn point by point.
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