Murphy, Charles Theophilus, 1909-, Bassett, Edward Lewis., Jarcho, Leonard Wallenstein. presented as a part of the Harvard tercentenary celebration, April 15-17, 1936. Murphy, '31 for the performance of the play by the Harvard Classical Club under the direction of A. Translated into English prose by Edward L. Translation by Henry Thomas Riley.1936 by S. Amphitryon вЂ“ translation English (full text) at the Perseus Project.

Amphitryon вЂ“ Latin (full text) at the Perseus Project.

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^ Plautus Translated by Wolfgang de Melo (2011).

^ Plautus Translated by Lionel Casson (1971).

^ Plautus Translated by Paul Roche (1968).

^ Plautus Translated by Paul Nixon (1916).

Joannes Burmeister: Aulularia and Other Inversions of Plautus.

David Christenson 2008 Review in Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

The last known copy of the book went missing from the Berlin library in World War II and exists now only in fragments. In it Amphitryon became Joseph, Alcmena became the Virgin Mary, and Sosia became the angel Gabriel. In 1621 the German poet laureate Joannes Burmeister published a Neo-Latin adaptation, titled Mater-Virgo ( The Virgin Mother), about the Nativity of Jesus. To quell AmphitryonвЂ™s anger, he explains to him what he did, and Amphitryon is then honored to have shared his wife with a god. One is the son of Amphitryon, the other is Hercules, the son of Jupiter. He soon begins to set things right, and in a miraculous event, Alcmena gives birth to twin boys. Amphitryon doesn't appreciate this strange welcome after being gone for so many months, and confusion turns to anger and jealousy after learning that she has slept with a man who is not himself.ДЄfter a long argument, Alcmena is ready to leave her untrusting husband but is stopped by Jupiter.

Jupiter leaves only moments before Amphitryon arrives, and when Alcmena sees her real husband, she is confused as to why he has returned. The following morning, Amphitryon sets off for the house, annoyed by his slave's foolish sounding story. Thoroughly confused by having been beat up by himself, Sosia returns to the ship to relay what happened to his master Amphitryon. He changes his appearance to look like the slave Sosia, and when the real Sosia arrives, he beats him up and sends him away from the house. Mercury's job is to buy his father Jupiter some time by deceiving those who would interfere. Jupiter is in the guise of Amphitryon so that Alcmena is unaware that he is not her husband. Meanwhile, the god Jupiter is sleeping with AmphitryonвЂ™s wife Alcmena. Amphitryon and his slave Sosia have been away at war and are returning to Thebes. Amphitryon begins with a prologue given by the god Mercury, in which he gives some background information to the audience.

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