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Catherine TracyPublished On
2025-08-28Page Range
pp. 163–219Language
- English
Casina (in Translation)
- Catherine Tracy (author)
Chapter of: 'Casina' by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation(pp. 163–219)
This chapter comprises a prose translation of Plautus’s play Casina. The plot involves the attempts by the senex (“old man”) Lysidamus to marry off the sixteen-year-old foundling girl Casina to his loyal slave, in order that he (Lysidamus) can carry on a secret affair with her himself. His wife Cleustrata turns the tables on him by substituting her loyal male slave Chalinus for the bride.
Contributors
Catherine Tracy
(author)Associate Professor Classical Studies at Bishop's University
Dr. Catherine Tracy completed her BA and MA in Classics at Dalhousie University, and her PhD in Classics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She now teaches in the Classical Studies department of Bishop's University, in Sherbrooke, QC (Canada). Her research area is Roman social history, ranging from popular power in the Roman republic to the use of Game Theory in the study of strategies in ancient social and political communities. Most recently she has been working on translations and commentaries of the plays of the comic playwright Plautus, with a focus on their social context within mid-republican Rome.