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Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

P. G. McC. Brown
P. G. McC. Brown
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Trinity college, Oxford
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Writing of Terence's Andria (‘The Girl from Andros’) in 1952, Duckworth said: ‘In the Andria the second love affair is unusual; Charinus’ love for a respectable girl whose virtue is still intact has been considered an anticipation of a more modern attitude towards love and sex. More frequently in Plautus and Terence the heroine, if of respectable parentage, has been violated before the opening of the drama (Aulularia, Adelphoe), or she is a foreigner, a courtesan, or a slave girl' (Duckworth (1952), p. 158). Perhaps in 1993 it does not seem quite so ‘modern’ that Charinus is not only in love with a respectable virgin but wishes to marry her.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , May 1993 , pp. 189 - 205
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1993

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