How to comunicate a cultural stereotype. The example of Plautus’ Persa
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Abstract
On the basis that Greek and Latin comedy are based on stories created from stock characters that are used as models, I will analyze Platus’Persa, because in it two characters play metatheater in order to mock the leno. For doing it, the servus and a uirgo adopt the disguise of a Persian and a princess from Arabia, so the stereotype about Orient people shared by the audience and the Greek leno is activated. Moreover, stereotypes about Persians will be compared to those about Phoenicians, that play a role in Plautus’ Poenulus, in order to understand why Roman people have such a different stereotyped image from both Persians and Phoenicians.
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