Lingua Punica – lingua comica. Głos w sprawie języka punickiego w "Punijczyku" Plauta
Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk
Lingua Punica – lingua comica. On the Punic language in the "Poenulus" of Plautus
In this contribution the author deals mainly with the monologue delivered by the Carthaginian Hanno at the
beginning of the fifth act of the comedy Poenulus. Giving the fact that the codices transmit three completely
different versions of the monologue, namely two in Punic (v. 930–939 and 940–949) and one in Latin
(v. 950–960), it arises the question of which of them should be treated as the original one. The author discusses
the history of research on this topic and puts forward the hypothesis that only the first Punic text existed in the
comedy staged by Plautus.
Plautus, bilingualism, Punic language, Poenulus, monologue of Hanno
Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2010, nr XX/1, s. 55-68
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