Bacchides is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. The title has been translated as The Bacchises and the plot revolves around the misunderstandings surrounding two sisters each called Bacchis who work in a local house of ill-repute.
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author
Plautus
character in play
Artamo (slave of Nicobulus), Bacchis I (a prostitute), Bacchis II (sister of Bacchis I), Boy (of Cleomachus), Chrysalus (slave of Nicobulus), Cleomachus (soldier), Lydus (tutor to Pistoclerus), Mnesilochus (son of Nicobulus), Nicobulus, Parasite (of Cleomachus), Philoxenus, Pistoclerus (son of Philoxenus), Slave (of Bacchis)
setting of play
a street in Athens before the houses of Bacchis I and Nicobulus
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