What is a summary of The Brothers by Terence?

Answer 1

Baard and Anders were very close all their lives, and loved each other deeply as two brothers should. But when their father died, they intend to sell all goods into a mart. It is a about the two close brothers who fought each other for the possession of their father's golden watch, which is very luxurious that time. Their relationship was wreck because of that material thing. They also committed mistakes in each other that made them changed themselves.

Answer 2

The Brothers (Adelphi) is a comedy that was first performed in 160 BC at the funeral games of Æmilius Paulus. This is a classical play, and the conflict is man vs self. The question examined is the degree of strictness to be applied as a parent.

Micio is an aging, easy-going Athenian bachelor. His strict, hard-working brother is the farmer Demea, who allows Micio to adopt and rear Aeschinus, one of Demea's two sons. Demea himself raises his other son, Ctesipho. Unlike his brother, Micio is a permissive parent, choosing to let pass many of Aeschinus' small extravagances on the assumption that children are more likely to remain bound to their duty by ties of kindness than by those of fear. Aeschinus has become engaged to marry Pamphila, a girl from a good family. When Ctesipho begins to emulate his free-spirited brother, he falls in love with a music girl (who is in service to a procurer). Aeschinus helps him in his romantic pursuit while pretending to woo the girl himself, which enrages the family of his fiancee. In the end, Ctesipho is allowed to marry the music girl, Aechinus marries Pamphila, and each of their fathers becomes more like the other in his attitudes.

*The events include the schemes of Syrus, a servant of Micio, which initially prevent Demea from learning of his son's romantic activities. These reflect elements found in the farce Pseudolus by the author Plautus, whose writings inspired the Steven Sondheim musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (1962).