The Body of the Meretrix and the Sexualization of Simo's House in Plautus' Mostellaria

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI:10.1353/ajp.2024.a936329

Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols

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Abstract

Abstract:

In Plautus’ Mostellaria, the enslaved Tranio covers up the young Philolaches’ purchase of the meretrix Philematium’s freedom by telling Philolaches’ father Theopropides that his son blew a fortune on the house next door. Though Philematium is hidden out of sight for much of the play, her body materializes in the feminizing language through which Tranio, Theopropides, and the owner Simo describe this house. Their conversation at the threshold transforms Theopropides into the literary trope of the meretrix’s excluded lover and calls to mind both the disempowerment of meretrices through the process of aging and the power they wield through pregnancy.

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梅雷特里克斯的身体与普劳图斯《莫斯特拉里亚》中西莫家的性化

摘要:在普劳图斯的《莫斯特拉里亚》中，被奴役的特兰尼奥掩盖了年轻的菲洛拉兹买下meretrix Philematium的自由，他告诉菲洛拉兹的父亲Theopropides，他的儿子在隔壁的房子上花了一大笔钱。虽然菲莱玛提姆在剧中大部分时间都隐藏在视线之外，但她的身体在特兰尼奥、提奥普罗皮德斯和房主西莫描述这所房子的女性化语言中具体化了。他们在门槛前的对话将西奥普罗皮德斯变成了文学作品中被排除在外的meretrix的情人，让人联想到meretrices通过衰老过程而丧失的权力，以及她们通过怀孕而拥有的权力。

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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY CLASSICS-

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