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  1. Democratic Ideology and The Poetics of Rape in Menandrian Comedy.Susan Lape - 2001 - Classical Antiquity 20 (1):79-119.
    Many of Menander's comedies are structured according to a rape plot pattern in which a young Athenian citizen usually rapes and impregnates a female citizen prior to the opening of the play. In most cases, the rape leads to a happy ending: the marriage of the rapist and victim. This casual treatment of rape is striking because in all other respects Menander's plays are not only scrupulously faithful to Athenian law, they also use Athenian legal and social norms as their (...)
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  • Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy.P. G. McC Brown - 1993 - Classical Quarterly 43 (01):189-.
    Writing of Terence's Andria 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 , or she is a foreigner, a courtesan, or a slave girl' , p. 158). Perhaps in 1993 (...)
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  • Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy.P. G. McC Brown - 1993 - Classical Quarterly 43 (1):189-205.
    Writing of Terence'sAndria(‘The Girl from Andros’) in 1952, Duckworth said: ‘In theAndriathe 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 (...)
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  • Das komische Potential des Rechts.Jan Bernhardt - 2015 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 159 (1):73-96.
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