Andria (The Girl From Andros)
By Terence and George Colman the Elder
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Publius Terentius Afer is better known to us as the Roman playwright, Terence.
Much of his life, especially the early part, is either unknown or has conflicting sources and accounts.
His birth date is said to be either 185 BC or a decade earlier: 195 BC. His place of birth is variously listed as in, or, near Carthage, or, in Greek Italy to a woman taken to Carthage as a slave. It is suggested that he lived in the territory of the Libyan tribe that the Romans called Afri, near Carthage, before being brought to Rome as a slave. Probability suggests that it was there, in North Africa, several decades after the destruction of Carthage by the Romans in 146 BC, at the end of the Punic Wars, that Terence spent his early years.
One reliable fact is that he was sold to P. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, who had him educated and, impressed by his literary talents, freed him.
These writing talents were to ensure his legacy as a playwright down through the millennia. His comedies, partially adapted from Greek plays of the late phases of Attic Comedy, were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. All six of the plays he has known to have written have survived.
Indeed, thanks to his simple conversational Latin, which was both entertaining and direct, Terence's works were heavily used by monasteries and convents during the Middle Ages and The Renaissance. Scribes often learned Latin through the copious copying of Terence's texts. Priests and nuns often learned to speak Latin through re-enactment of Terence's plays. Although his plays often dealt with pagan material, the quality and distinction of his language promoted the copying and preserving of his text by the church. This preservation enabled his work to influence a wide spectrum of later Western drama.
When he was 25 (or 35 depending on which year of birth you ascribe too), Terence travelled to Greece but never returned. It has long been assumed that he died at some point during the journey.
Of his own family nothing is known, except that he fathered a daughter and left a small but valuable estate just outside Rome.
His most famous quotation reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me."
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Andria (The Girl From Andros) - Terence
Andria (The Girl From Andros) by Terence
Translated by George Colman the Elder
Publius Terentius Afer is better known to us as the Roman playwright, Terence.
Much of his life, especially the early part, is either unknown or has conflicting sources and accounts.
His birth date is said to be either 185 BC or a decade earlier: 195 BC. His place of birth is variously listed as in, or, near Carthage, or, in Greek Italy to a woman taken to Carthage as a slave. It is suggested that he lived in the territory of the Libyan tribe that the Romans called Afri, near Carthage, before being brought to Rome as a slave. Probability suggests that it was there, in North Africa, several decades after the destruction of Carthage by the Romans in 146 BC, at the end of the Punic Wars, that Terence spent his early years.
One reliable fact is that he was sold to P. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, who had him educated and, impressed by his literary talents, freed him.
These writing talents were to ensure his legacy as a playwright down through the millennia. His comedies, partially adapted from Greek plays of the late phases of Attic Comedy, were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. All six of the plays he has known to have written have survived.
Indeed, thanks to his simple conversational Latin, which was both entertaining and direct, Terence's works were heavily used by monasteries and convents during the Middle Ages and The Renaissance. Scribes often learned Latin through the copious copying of Terence's texts. Priests and nuns often learned to speak Latin through re-enactment of Terence's plays. Although his plays often dealt with pagan material, the quality and distinction of his language promoted the copying and preserving of his text by the church. This preservation enabled his work to influence a wide spectrum of later Western drama.
When he was 25 (or 35 depending on which year of birth you ascribe too), Terence travelled to Greece but never returned. It has long been assumed that he died at some point during the journey.
Of his own family nothing is known, except that he fathered a daughter and left a small but valuable estate just outside Rome.
His most famous quotation reads: Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto
, or I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me.
Index of Contents
PERSONS REPRESENTED
SCENE: Athens
ANDRIA (THE GIRL FROM ANDROS)
PROLOGUE
ACT THE FIRST
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV
SCENE V
ACT THE SECOND
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV
SCENE V
SCENE VI
SCENE VII
ACT THE THIRD
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV
SCENE V
SCENE VI
SCENE VII
SCENE VIII
ACT THE FOURTH
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV
SCENE V
SCENE VI
SCENE VII
SCENE VIII
SCENE IX
ACT THE FIFTH
SCENE I
SCENE II
SCENE III
SCENE IV
SCENE V
SCENE VI
SCENE VII
SCENE VIII
TERENCE – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY
GEORGE COLMAN THE ELDER – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY
GEORGE COLMAN THE ELDER – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY
PERSONS REPRESENTED
SIMO
PAMPHILUS
CHREMES
CHARINUS
GLYCERIUN
MYSIS
LESBIA
ARCHYLLIS
BYRRHIA
DROMO
SERVANTS ETC
CRITO
SOSIA
DAVUS
SCENE: Athens
ANDRIA (THE GIRL FROM ANDROS)
PROLOGUE
The Bard, when first he gave his mind to write,
Thought it his only business, that his Plays
Should please the people: but it now falls out,
He finds, much otherwise, and wastes, perforce,
His time in writing Prologues; not to tell
The argument, but to refute the slanders
Broach’d by the malice of an older Bard.
And mark what vices he is charg’d withal!
Menander wrote the Andrian and Perinthian:
Know one, and you know both; in argument
Less dilf’rent than in sentiment and style.
What suited with the Andrian he confesses
From the Perinthian he transferr’d, and us’d
For his: and this it is these sland’rers blame,
Proving by deep and learned disputation.
That Fables should not be contaminated.