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Panegyris channels Penelope: Metis and Pietas in Plautus's Stichus.(Critical essay)
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March 22, 2008
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Plautus's Stichus is an odd play. Instead of a traditional New Comic plot, we find a tripartite structure that highlights different groups of characters at the beginning, middle, and end. Furthermore, there is a marked change in the tone, which descends from a highly moral beginning to what scholars have called an "antimoral" ending. (1) In the initial scenes, (2) the plot focuses on two sisters, Pamphila and Panegyris, (3) as they wait for their long-lost husbands to return from a journey abroad. The sisters wish to remain married to their absent husbands, but their father Antipho wishes them to remarry. A conflict between father and daughters ensues. This type of ...
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