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Plautus (250 - 184 B.C.)

RESOURCES:

Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).

SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>

Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Plautus.

DATABASE	SEARCH TERMS	RESULTS
Academic Search Premier	*plautus* Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text," and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals."	Provides a small number of relevant items.
Arts & Sciences Collection	*plautus* JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collection, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details).	Provides a great number of excellent items.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online	*plautus* Perform the default search.	Provides a small number of poems.
Encyclopedia Britannica	*plautus* Perform the default search.	Provides a primary encyclopedia article, several related articles and a number of Web sites.
Expanded Academic ASAP	*plautus* Perform the Keyword search, NOT the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text" and "to refereed publication."	Provides a good number of worthy items.
Literature Resource Center	*plautus* Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles (many are full-text).	Provides a document.
netLibrary	*plautus* Perform the basic search and select the Full Text checkbox.	Provides a large number of eBooks, with only refer to the author.
Research Library Complete	*plautus* Perform the basic search. Set the "Database" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary -Research Library." Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and "Scholarly journals."	Provides a good number of excellent items.
Scribner's	Select "Writers A-Z" and click on the *Plautus* link.	Provides an essay about the author and his works, along with a bibliography.
SIRS Renaissance	*plautus* Perform the "Quick Search."	Provides a couple of excellent items.

SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>

The following bibliography is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
Circulating books not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary loan.
eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.
Amphitryon, and two other plays
PA6570.A6 C3 1971
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

The Menaechmi of Plautus
PA6111.S8 P63 1933
Location: Troy, AL

Three Roman poets, Plautus, Catullus, Ovid, their lives, times and works
PA6047.W7 1938
Location: Troy, AL

The complete Roman drama; all the extant comedies of Plautus and Terence, and the tragedies of Seneca
PA6165.D8
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

The haunted house (Mostellaria)
PA6570.M7 C6
Location: Troy, AL

Miles gloriosus
PA6568.M6 1963
Location: Troy, AL

Plautus, the darker comedies
PA6570 .A3 1983
Location: Troy, AL

Plautus and Terence
PA6585.N6 1963
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
Social Documents from the Age of Plautus
http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/Texts/plautus.html
Plautus
http://www.dl.ket.org/latin2/historia/people/plautus/plautus.htm
Roman Comedy: Plautus and Terence
http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/LatinAuthors/RomanComedy.html
Titus Maccius Plautus
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc21.html

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