Lyconides confronts his slave about the theft.Īt this point the manuscript breaks off. Lyconides’ slave manages to steal the now notorious pot of gold. Eventually Lyconides and his slave appear, and Lyconides confesses to Euclio his ravishing of Phaedria. This leads to much by-play involving preparations for the nuptials. Phaedria is never seen on stage, though at a key point in the play the audience hears her painful cries in labor.Įuclio is persuaded to marry his daughter to his rich neighbor, an elderly bachelor named Megadorus, who happens to be the uncle of Lyconides. Unknown to Euclio, Phaedria is pregnant by a young man named Lyconides. Euclio is then shown almost maniacally guarding his gold from real and imagined threats.
Lar Familiaris, the household deity of Euclio, an old man with a marriageable daughter named Phaedria, begins the play with a prologue about how he allowed Euclio to discover a pot of gold buried in his house. The play’s ending does not survive, though there are indications of how the plot is resolved in later summaries and a few fragments of dialogue. The title literally means The Little Pot, but some translators provide The Pot of Gold, and the plot revolves around a literal pot of goldwhich the miserlyprotagonist, Euclio, guards zealously. Guided by the household god, Euclio has found the gold buried by his grandfather, because the g.Jump to navigationJump to search AululariaĪ street in Athens, before the houses of Euclio and Megadorus, and the shrine of FidesĪulularia is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. Get started now! The Pot of Gold by Plautus was the basis for Moliere's Miser.
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