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- Author
- Titus Maccius Plautus
- First published
- 1666
- Editions
- 47
- Subjects
- Criticism and interpretation, Drama, Latin drama (Comedy), Latin language materials, Suggestive Therapeutics, Play, Influence, Italian drama (Comedy)
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Key facts
- Play.name
- Captivi
- Play.image
- Captivi.jpg
- Play.caption
- Cover of translation by Adolfo Cinquini
- Play.writer
- Plautus
- Play.characters
- Ergasilus, a parasitus (perpetual dinner guest)HegioOverseerPhilocrates, a freeborn captive of HegioTyndarus, slave of PhilocratesAristophontesa pagePhilopolemusStalagmus, fugitive slave of Hegio
- Play.setting
- Aetolia, before the house of Hegio
- Play.genre
- Roman comedy
- Play.orig_lang
- Latin
- Play.place
- Rome?
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Plot summary
- Metrical structure
- The scene is set
- Philocrates is released
- Tyndarus is betrayed
- Despair turns to joy
- Hegio finds his younger son
- Key themes
- Critical evaluation
- Translations
- References
- External links
Captivi is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, written circa 200 BCE. The title has been translated as The Captives or The Prisoners, and the plot focuses on slavery and prisoners of war. Although the play contains much broad humor, it is a relatively serious treatment of significant themes compared to most of Plautus’ other comedies. Plautus himself points out the difference in tone between this play and his other works in Captivi’s prologue.
==Plot summary==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Captivi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.