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Eduard Fraenkel was one of the most prominent and respected classical philologists of the 20th century, publishing monumental studies of both Greek and Latin poets. Most well known are his book-length study of the Roman comic poet Plautus, "Plautinisches im Plautus", which was later expanded and translated into Italian as "Elementi Plautini in Plauto". An English version, entitled "Plautine Elements in Plautus", was published in 2007 on the basis of the German and Italian versions. Also notable are his magisterial three volume text, commentary, and translation of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus, which remains one of the standard works of scholarship on that play, and a valuable study of the lyric poetry of Horace.
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