Amphitruo

Name: Amphitruo
Author: Plautus, Titus Maccius

Amphitruo, in English translation from the Perseus Digital Library (tr. Perseus Digital Library), with the Latin original.

Chapters

Variants

Genre

Classics

Difficulty

Intermediate

chapters

7 chapters

in the atlas

fully mapped

Figures— 10 of 18

Alcmena · Amphitryon · Bellona · Blepharo · Bromia · Creon · Electryon · Hercules · Iphiclus · Jupiter

Ideas— 7

theatrical self-reference / metatheater · Deception · divine authority and command · divine love / erotic desire of a god · identity confusion / mistaken identity · marital fidelity and accusations of infidelity · merit versus canvassing

Places— 4

Amphitryon's house · Argos · Thebes · harbour

Groups— 4

Aediles · Teleboans · Theban troops · spectators

Events— 4

birth of Hercules and Iphiclus · divine impersonation / identity substitution · thunderclap and swoon of Amphitryon · war between Thebes and Teleboans

Objects— 4

gifts from the army · golden tuft on Jupiter's cap · lantern · wings on Mercury's cap

1 citation · 9 themes · 42 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.

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