Captivi

Also known as Pl. Capt.

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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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title: Captivi
first line: Hos quos videtis stare hic captivos duos
entry in abbreviations table: Pl. Capt.

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Article

12 sections

Contents

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==