The Braggart Soldier (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Plautus
- First Published: 200
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: Third century
- Setting: Ephesus, in Asia Minor
- Genres: Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Love or romance, Slavery or slaves, Servants, Kidnapping, Soldiers, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Braggarts, Cowards or cowardliness
- Locales: Asia Minor, Ephesus
Characters Discussed
Pyrgopolinices (pihr-goh-pol-ih- NI-sees), a vain and stupid braggart and professional soldier. Convinced that all women find him irresistible, he seizes a young Athenian girl, Philocomasium, and carries her off to his house in Ephesus. The slave of the girl’s sweetheart is, by coincidence, also in the braggart’s household. Pleusicles, the girl’s lover, takes up residence in the house of an old man next door to Pyrgopolinices. Pleusicles and his slave, Palaestrio, plot to free the girl. Pyrgopolinices is convinced that the wife of his neighbor is in...
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