The hero of the novel Lucius (is it a coincidence with the name of the author ?!) travels around Thessaly. On the way, he hears fascinating and scary stories about witchcraft charms, transformations, and other witchcraft tricks. Lucius arrives in the Thessalian city of Hypatou and stops at the house of a certain Milon, who is "full ...

A merchant lived in the city of Syracuse, and he had two twin boys, similar as two drops of water. The merchant went overseas and took with him one of the boys - named Menekhm. There was a holiday, the boy was lost in the crowd; he was picked up by another merchant - from the city of Epidamna, he took him away, adopted him, and then he found ...

The young man Pamphilus was very partial to Geter Bacchid. But under the pressure of his parents, reluctantly, he married a neighbor - a respectable Filumen. She loves a young husband. But the heart of that probably still belongs to the getter ... An unforeseen case: at the death of a close relative, and Lachet, the father of Pamphilus, ...

Curculion means "Breadworm." This is the nickname of the one-eyed freeloader-rooting, sly and glutton, which leads the intrigue in this comedy. His breadwinner and patron is an ardent young man in love; the girl this young man loves belongs to the evil pimp and needs to be redeemed as soon as possible. Of money ...

The text of the first adventurous (or rogue) novel known in world literature has survived only fragmentarily: fragments of the 15th, 16th and presumably 14th chapters. There is no beginning, no end, and, apparently, there were 20 chapters ... The main character (the story is being written on his behalf) is skilled in ...

The main thing in this comedy is not the plot, but the hero, the “boastful warrior”. In the old days, there were no professional soldiers in Greece, there were militias. And then, when the war became a profession, then dashing mercenaries appeared who went to serve anyone, at least to the ends of the world, for the most part they died, and who ...

“This is an unusual comedy! - warns the actor pronouncing the prologue. “There is no obscenity in her, there is neither a procurator, nor a lascivious woman, nor a boastful warrior, nor foundlings, nor a lover who abducts her lover, but only a game of fate, the vanity of human intentions and the nobility of perfect valor.”...

The eternal theme: in the late evening, the father waits in alarm for the son of a lingering somewhere somewhere and mutters to himself under his breath that there is no greater unrest than the parental unrest ... Old Man Mikion has no native children. His brother Demea has two sons. One of them, Aeschine, was adopted by Mikion. Brings up a young man ...

The most beloved hero of Greek myths was Hercules, a powerful worker who saved the gods from death, and people from terrible monsters, but who didn’t gain either kingdom or happiness for himself. The Greeks composed about him first songs, then tragedies, then comedies. One of these comedies came to us in Latin processing ...

The action takes place in Athens. It all starts with the slave monologue Dava; the owner of his friend Geta, the young Antiphon marries for love and under very ordinary circumstances. Dove is going to return Goethe's favor: he needed money for a gift to the young. As you can see, the tradition of such gifts has long existed: collected ...

The word "metamorphosis" means "transformation." There were a lot of ancient myths that ended with the transformations of the heroes - into a river, into a mountain, into an animal, into a plant, into a constellation. The poet Ovid tried to collect all such myths about the transformations that he knew; there were more than two hundred of them. He retold them alone ...

The heroes of this tragedy are two villain tsars from the city of Argos, Atreus and Fiesta. The son of this Atreus was the famous leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, Agamemnon - the one whom his wife Clytemnestra killed, and her son Orestes killed her for this (and Aeschylus wrote about this to Oresteia). When the Greeks asked what they were ...

Although Terence wrote in Latin for the Roman viewer, his characters bear Greek names and it is assumed that the action often takes place in Hellas. So in this case. The harsh old man Menedemos pounded his son Klinia so much for his fascination with a poor neighborly girl that he was forced to flee ...

When the age of heroes began on earth, the gods very often went to mortal women, so that heroes were born from them. Another thing is the goddesses: they only very rarely went to mortal husbands to give birth to sons from them. So from the goddess Thetis was born the hero of the "Iliad" - Achilles; so from the goddess Aphrodite was ...