Talk:Miles Gloriosus (play)

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Legacy[edit]

Should this article include mention of the relationship between this character -- both name and behavior -- and the character of Miles Gloriosus in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"? PurpleChez (talk) 20:43, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Greek names[edit]

"Although the characters in Miles Gloriosus speak Latin, they are Greeks, with Greek names, clothing, and customs." Several of the names, like Cario, Lurcio and Sceledrus, sound quite Latin. Not to mention the name of the play itself of course. Bataaf van Oranje (Prinsgezinde) (talk) 11:50, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Καρίων is Greek at least (it occurs in Aristophanes' Pluto). Kanjuzi (talk) 11:30, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Bentley's view[edit]

The article says: "Eric Bentley suggests that comedy and tragedy try to cope with despair, mental suffering, guilt, and anxiety. The play's tragedy is that the Braggart Soldier has kidnapped a beautiful woman from a proud man. The comedy, of course, is that both men are absent-minded and overall buffoons." – This view (from a playwright not a classicist) is not very accurate. There is no evidence in the play that Pleusicles is absent-minded, proud or a buffoon. Of the many opinions of the play therefore this one doesn't seem very helpful, so I am going to delete it. Kanjuzi (talk) 11:37, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]