CLA 2120 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Aulularia, Pietas, Plautus
16 Jan 2017
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Partial plot summary (spoiler alert -the ending of the play is lost to us): plautus" play. Aulularia, or the pot of gold is about a miser named euclio who is anxiously guarding a pot of gold he has discovered in his house. He hides the gold in various places throughout the play. He has a daughter, phaedra, who is pregnant, but she does not know who the father is. Lyconides, who knows he is the father of her baby, has an uncle megadorus, who wants to marry phaedra. A servant from the house of megadorus spies on euclio and when he moves the pot of gold yet again, the slave steals it. When lyconides comes to euclio to confess that he is the father of. Greedy, pretends to be humble and of meager means. Stubborn, talks back to her master, tells whats on her mind. A bit stuck up, talks formally, concerned with social sphere.
