
In Rome the forerunners of such plays, existing a generation before Plautus, were called fabulae palliatae, comedies in which actors wore the Greek pallium or cloak. He spun his work from Greek comedies, “New Comedies” bearing his own unique stamp. This collection celebrates a comic artist who left twenty plays written during the decades on either side of 200 B.C.

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