Aulularia

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Aulularia is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. The title has been translated as The Pot of Gold and the plot revolves around a literal pot of gold which the miserly protagonist Euclio guards zealously. 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.

author

Plautus

character in play

Charcoal, Eel, Eleusium, Euclio, Eunomia, Lar Familiaris, Lyconides, Megadorus, Phaedria, Phygia, Sobersides, Staphyla, Strobilus

setting of play

a street in Athens before the houses of Euclio and Megadorus and the shrine of Fides