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Plautus

Pseudolus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

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Essay Topics

1.

What is ironic about Pseudolus’s use of military language? What is the effect?

2.

What is ironic about the fact that Pseudolus offers morality lessons to the audience, and what does it suggest about the message of the play?

3.

The only women in the play are the abused prostitutes and a crying Phoenicium. What is the effect of the absence of women, save for these passive examples?