Menaechmi a Latin-language play is often considered Plautus’ greatest play. The title is sometimes translated as The Brothers Menaechmus or The Two Menaechmuses.The Menaechmi is a comedy about mistaken identity involving a set of twins Menaechmus of Epidamnus and Menaechmus of Syracuse. It incorporates various Roman stock characters including the parasite the comic courtesan the comic servant the domineering wife the doddering father-in-law and the quack doctor.
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author
Plautus
character in play
Cylindrus (Erotium's cook), Decio (wife's servant), Erotium (Menaechmus's mistress), Erotium's servant, Father-in-law of Menaechmus, Menaechmus of Epidamnus, Menaechmus's wife, Messenio (slave), Peniculus (Menaechmus's friend), Sosicles/Menaechmus of Syracuse), a doctor
setting of play
a street in Epidamnus before the houses of Menaechmus and Erotium
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