CLAS 430 Lecture Notes - Plautus
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Classics 210: greek & roman classics in english. Phaedria (daughter of euclio of marriageable age) Megadorus (extremely wealthy, willing to marry phaedria although for wrong reasons) Lyconides (gets phaedra pregnant and eventually marries her) There is no money to pay for a dowry for phaedria"s marriage. Lar (spirit of the ancestors) decides she needs the dowry to be put in a good home. He lets euclio find money in the fireplace that was hidden by euclio"s grandfather. But euclio buries it back up again and hides it. Tells staphyla to put the fire out essentially putting himself into internal exile. Expression of his alienation from society. i. e. similar to strepsiades" stinginess for not paying his debtors back. Megadorus willing to marry phaedria without a dowry which seems generous until he expresses his reasons for doing so (economic leverage) Eunomia worried about threat of megadorus" future children to the future of her own son.
