The Menaechmi (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Plautus
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Farce
- Time of Work: Third century
- Setting: Epidamnum, a city of Macedonia
- Genres: Drama, Farce
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Brothers, Food, Wealth, Greek or Roman times, Time, Greece or Greek people, Merchants
- Locales: Roman Empire, Macedonia, ancient, Syracuse, ancient
Characters Discussed
Menaechmus of Epidamnum (meh- NEEK-muhs of eh-pih-DAM-nuhm), an identical twin. When Menaechmus was a child, Moschus, his father, had taken him to Tarentum on a trading expedition. After the boy wandered away from his father and became lost, he was found and adopted by a citizen of Epidamnum, a city in Asia Minor noted for its sinfulness. By the time the play opens, Menaechmus has married and inherited his foster father’s considerable estate. He also has taken up with a courtesan, Erotium. He gives her a robe he has stolen from his wife’s closet.
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