Table of Contents

The ComediesPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction

The Girl From Andros
Andria

The Self-Tormentor
Heauton Timorumenos

The Eunuch
Eunuchus

Phormio

The Mother-In-Law
Hecyra

The Brothers
Adelhoe

Appendix A: 'The Life of Terrence' by Suetonius

Appendix B: The Order and Dates of the Plays

Select Bibliography

About the Author

Terence (c.186-159) was born at Carthage of Libyan parentage, and was brought Rome as a young slave. According to Roman tradition his talents and good looks won him an education, manumissions, and entry to a patrician literary circle, with whose encouragement he wrote six Latin plays, modelled on Greek New Comedy. Only one, The Eunuch, was a popular success in his lifetime but he was read and admired in Roman times and became the main influence on Renaissance comedy.


Betty Radice was one of the greatest translators of her lifetime, and translated many titles for the Penguin Classics including Erasmus's Praise of Folly and Livy. She died in 1985.