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The Woman of Andros

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Also known as: “The Andrian Girl”
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The Woman of Andros, play by Terence, produced in 166 bce as Andria. It has also been translated as The Andrian Girl. Terence adapted it from the Greek play Andria by Menander and added material from Menander’s Perinthia (The Perinthian Girl). The relationship of a father, Simo, and his son, Pamphilus, is central to The Woman of Andros, in which Simo engages Pamphilus in an arranged marriage although Pamphilus wants to marry his sweetheart from Andros, the mother of his child. Simo’s schemes and self-delusion set up the play’s comic situations. Dialogues, rather than the conventional monologues used by other ...(100 of 163 words)

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