Truculentus is a comedic Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. Following the relationships between prostitutes and their customers it contains perhaps Plautus’s most cynical depiction of human nature in comparison with his other surviving plays.
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author
Plautus
character in play
attendants, Astaphium maid to Phronesium, Callicles, Cyamus cook of Diniarchus, Diniarchus, Phronesium a prostitute, Strabax, Stratophanes a soldier, Syra slave of Callicles, Truculentes slave of Strabax, maid slave of Callicles
setting of play
a street in Athens before the houses of Phronesium and Strabax
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