![]() ![]() Two young friends, Mnesilochus and Pistoclerus, have fallen in love with two sisters, and both are prostitutes named Bacchis. ![]() The beginning of it is lost to history, and so is often reconstructed in modern-day adaptations using contextual clues as well as twenty surviving fragments. The play was likely an adaptation of the play Δὶς Ἐξαπατῶν (Dis Exapaton), meaning Twice Deceiving but more commonly known as The Double Deceiver, by the Greek New Comedy playwright Menander. It includes Plautus' frequent theme of clever servants outwitting their supposed superiors. 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. WikiMili Bacchides (play) Last updated AugBacchidesīacchis I (a prostitute) Slave (of Bacchis) Pistoclerus (son of Philoxenus) Boy (of Cleomachus) Bacchis II (sister of Bacchis I) Lydus (tutor to Pistoclerus) Chrysalus (slave of Nicobulus) Nicobulus (old man) Mnesilochus (son of Nicobulus) Philoxenus Parasite (of Cleomachus) Artamo (slave of Nicobulus) Cleomachus (soldier)Ī street in Athens, before the houses of Bacchis I and Nicobulusīacchides is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. ![]()
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