Miles gloriosus is a comedic play written by titus maccius plautus ( c. in three of these works miles gloriosus plays an especially important riassunto role. duckworth 1994 offers much good discussion of the play. the title can be translated as " the swaggering soldier" or " vainglorious soldier". fontaine examines many of the play’ s jokes. to students of retractatio and contaminatio the play has offered a fertile field for conjecture and theory for almost a century, ' and we still seem to be far from a definite solution of the problems. 1 pyrgopolinices: the literal meaning of the name of the swaggering captain is " the much- conquering tower, " or something similar. the miles gloriosus of t. duckworth m t / [ uch has been written concerning the composition of the miles gloriosus of plautus. " the name was originally given to persons who were assistants to riassunto the priests and high magistrates, and. being sent on public business to naupactus, a certain captain of ephesus, pyrgopolinices by name, comes to athens, and insinuates himself into the good graces of her mother, in order miles gloriosus riassunto pdf that he may get philocomasium into his. maccius plautus: a revised text, with notes by plautus, titus maccius; tyrrell, robert yelverton,, pdf ed book digitized by google from the library of harvard pdf university and uploaded to the internet archive by user tpb. " the word " parasite" properly denotes " one person who dines with another. duckworth, george e. the structure of the miles gloriosus by george e. his source for miles gloriosus was a greek play, now lost, called alazon or the braggart. ; the truculentus, like pseudolus, was composed when plautus was an old man, not many years before his death in 184 b. plieusicles, a young athenian, is in love with philocomasium, a courtesan of athens, who returns his affection. marshall uses miles gloriosus as an example for various features of the staging of plautus’ s plays. the miles gloriosus appeared about 206, the cistellaria about 202, stichus in 200, pseudolus in 191 b. " artotrogus" means " bread- eater.