Dish to cash, cash to ash : the last Roman parasite and the birth of a comic profession

Querolus

Dish to cash, cash to ash : the last Roman parasite and the birth of a comic profession Vidovic, Goran MA Thesis in Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, May (2009) Abstract The subject of the thesis is the unconventional role of the parasite Mandrogerus in the early fifth-century Latin comedy, the Querolus. The topos of parasitic […]

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