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In this stimulating and provocative book Vincent J. Rosivach examines the plays of New Comedy to reveal how the sexual relationships between the male and female protagonists are essentially exploitative.In the plays of New Comedy young men either rape young women, have affairs with impoverished ...

In this stimulating and provocative book Vincent J. Rosivach examines the plays of New Comedy to reveal how the sexual relationships between the male and female protagonists are essentially exploitative.In the plays of New Comedy young men either rape young women, have affairs with impoverished young women whom their mothers exploit, fall in love with and frequently purchase young female slaves whose owners prostitute them, or pay cash and gifts to have affairs with independent women, the famous hetairai or 'companions'. When A Young Man Falls in Love examines the individual plays to establish how the representations of heterosexual relationships fall into various stereotypical patterns and to explore the suppositions about social status which underlie these stereotypical and comic portrayals.Vincent J. Rosivach displays that the affairs in the plays are structured to the advantage of the young man and argues that this dynamic which privileges male over female, citizen over foreign and rich over poor reflects and reinforces assumptions about class, status and gender held by contemporary Greek and Roman audiences. When A Young Man Falls in Love is an arresting and important book, which poses important questions about the dramatic portrayal of women in the Roman world. Among the plays discussed are:* Menander, The Bad-Tempered Man and The Samian Woman * Caecilius, The Little Necklace and The Wet-Nurse * Plautus, The Pot of Gold and The Rope * Terence, The Brothers and The Eunuch .

The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the ...

The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic.