The Braggart Soldier | The Braggart Soldier

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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...

The Braggart Soldier | The Braggart Soldier

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