"Effingitur corporis forma": considerations on prosopography in Plautus’ comedies
Abstract
Although the number of studies that focus on the characterization of Greek and Latin theater characters is enormous, the importance given to the physical or prosopographical description is still limited today. Faced with a practically nonexistent number of prosopographies in the Greek drama, it is surprising to see how in the Roman theater, particularly in Plautus, this situation has changed. Portraying the physical appearance of the characters becomes important. For this reason, the examination of a set of prosopographies will allow us to establish an origin for this type of physical description as well as to review the rhetorical trace, importance and purpose of this procedure.
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