The Braggart Soldier (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Plautus
- First Published: 200
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: Third century
- Setting: Ephesus, in Asia Minor
- Principal Characters: Pyrgopolinices, Pleusicles, Periplecomenus, Sceledrus, Palaestrio, Philocomasium, Acroteleutium
- 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
The Story:
Pleusicles, a young Athenian, was in love with and loved by Philocomasium, a young woman of Athens. While he was away on public business in another city, a captain of Ephesus, Pyrgopolinices, came to Athens and, in order to get Philocomasium into his power, worked his way into the confidence of her mother. As soon as the opportunity presented itself, he abducted the daughter and carried her off to his home in Ephesus.
News of ravished Philocomasium soon reached Pleusicles’ household, and Palaestrio, a faithful servant, immediately embarked for the city in...
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