Aulularia

Also known as Pl. Aul.

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Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
First published: 1513
Editions: 27
Subjects: Translations into Italian

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Play.name: Aulularia
Play.caption: Cover of 1965 Penguin Classics edition of Plautus' alullaria SOURAV' and other plays
Play.writer: Plautus
Play.characters: Lar FamiliarisEuclioStaphylaEunomiaMegadorusStrobilusLyconidesPhaedriaPhygia
Play.setting: a street in Athens, before the houses of Euclio and Megadorus, and the shrine of Fides

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Plot summary
Metrical structure
Megadorus proposes marriage
The cooks cause a commotion
Euclio hides the gold
Lyconides confesses to the rape
Lyconides discovers his slave with the gold
The two slaves
Key themes
Adaptations
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Aulularia is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. The title literally means The Little Pot, but some translators provide The Pot of Gold, and the plot revolves around a literal pot of gold which the miserly protagonist, Euclio, guards zealously. The play's ending does not survive, though there are indications of how the plot is resolved in later summaries and a few fragments of dialogue.

One scholar, R. L. Hunter, writes of this play: "The Aulularia has always been one of the most popular and most studied of Plautus' plays, both because of its intrinsic interest and quality and also because of its later influence in the European dramatic tradition."