Titus Maccius Plautus

(c. 254 — 184 BC), dramatist, composer of comedies: Poenulus, Miles Gloriosus, and other plays

Titus Maccius Plautus was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature. The word Plautine refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his.

Plautus's epitaph read:

  postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, Comoedia luget,
  scaena deserta, dein risus, ludus iocusque
  et numeri innumeri simul omnes conlacrimarunt.

  Since Plautus is dead, Comedy mourns,
  The stage is deserted; then Laughter, Jest and Wit,
  And all Melody's countless numbers wept together. 

• Amphitruo (missing a large segment towards end)
• Asinaria (“The Comedy of Asses”)
• Aulularia (“The Pot of Gold”) (missing ending)
• Bacchides (“The Bacchis Sisters”)
• Captivi (“The Captives”)
• Casina
• Cistellaria (“The Little Casket”) (missing large segments)
• Curculio
• Epidicus
• Menaechmi
• Mercator (“The Merchant”)
• Miles Gloriosus (“The Braggart Soldier”)
• Mostellaria (“The Ghost”)
• Persa (“The Persian”)
• Poenulus (“The Little Carthaginian”)
• Pseudolus
• Rudens (“The Rope”)
• Stichus
• Trinummus (“The Three Coins”)
• Truculentus (“The Churl”)

Only the titles and various fragments of these plays have survived.

• Acharistio
• Addictus (“The Devoted One”)
• Ambroicus, or Agroicus (“The Rustic Man”)
• Anus (“The Old Woman”)
• Artamo (“The Mainsail”)
• Astraba
• Baccharia
• Bis Compressa (“The Twice-Raped Woman”)
• Boeotia (“Boeotia”)
• Caecus (“The Blind Man”), or Praedones (“Plunderers”)
• Calceolus (“The Little Shoe”)
• Carbonaria (“The Charcoal-Burner”)
• Clitellaria, or Astraba
• Colax (“The Flatterer”)
• Commorientes (“Those Dying Together”)
• Condalium (“The Slave Ring”)
• Cornicularia
• Dyscolus (“The Grouch”)
• Foeneratrix (“The Lady Moneylender”)
• Fretum (“The Strait”, or “Channel”)
• Frivolaria (“Trifles”)
• Fugitivi (“The Runaways”—possibly by Turpilius [la])
• Gastrion, or Gastron
• Hortulus (“Little Garden”)
• Kakistus (possibly by Accius)
• Lenones Gemini (“The Twin Pimps”)
• Nervolaria
• Parasitus Medicus (“The Parasite Physician”)
• Parasitus Piger (“The Lazy Parasite”), or Lipargus
• Phagon (“The Glutton”)
• Plociona
• Saturio
• Scytha Liturgus (“The Scythian Public Servant”)
• Sitellitergus (“The Toilet Cleaner”)
• Trigemini (“Triplets”)
• Vidularia (“The Travelling Case”)