Show:
PLAUTUS
PRODUCTION
NAMES/CHARACTERS
PLOT
MISCELLANEOUS
100
The number of Plautus' plays that survive
What is 20 (plus fragments)?
100
The year the play was written
What is 205 BCE?
100
The original name of the play
What is Miles Gloriosus?
100
Dexter serves this function of Old Comedy in Act II, Scene I
What is a parabasis?
100
This war was taking place at the time of production
What is the Second Punic War?
200
Plautus' age when he died (approx.)
What is 70?
200
A common feature of Roman stages enabling eavesdropping
What are long, shallow stages?
200
Nautikles name means this in Greek
What is sailor?
200
Haplus was chasing this animal off the roof
What is a monkey?
200
The name of the leader invading Italy at the time of production
What is Hannibal?
300
The number of plays Plautus is supposed to have written (two possible answers)
What is 50, 130?
300
Most of the actors on stage would have had this social role in real life
What are slaves?
300
The name of Convivia's "twin"
What is Virginia?
300
Dexter suggests that Haplus should "fear what he saw" because...
What is he would get in trouble with his master?
300
The two gods on the pillars
Who are Diana of Ephesus and Mars?
400
How Plautus supported himself before becoming a playwright
What is working as an assistant to a baker?
400
The reward for slave actors after a performance
What is wine?
400
This name means "party lover"
What is Convivia?
400
The terms Convivia agrees to when leaving the Major
What is take all her gifts from the Major, and take Dexter?
400
One of the main appeals of this play to a Roman audience
What is escapism, or qualities of Greek plays?
500
Plautus' believed full name
What is Titus Maccius Plautus?
500
The color robe that indicated that the character was a rich man
What is purple?
500
The name of the "parasite"
What is Ingestio?
500
Dexter's allegiance does not lie with the Major because...
What is Dexter was loyal to Nautikles, his former master?
500
The names of the two different types of columns
What are Ionic and Doric?