Lysias 1 as Drama 1

 

 

The Merry Wives of Attica

or

How to Murder your Man without really Trying

 

Drama giocoso

by

Lysias son of Cephalas

 

First performed in Athens in the Archonship of 

Laches (?)

 

and newly revised and revived by

P. Swarney

Vancouver and Toronto

MMII


 

Dramatis Personae

 

Euphiletus                                 a Gentleman of Athens

 

Wife of Euphiletus                    an Athenian Wife

 

Mother of Euphiletus                an Athenian Mother

 

Child of Euphiletus                    an Athenian Child

 

Slave (s)  of the  house of Euphiletus

 

Brother of Wife of Euphiletus

 

Relatives of Mother and Wife of Euphileus

 

Eratosthenes of                     an Athenian Libertine

 

Mother of Eratosthenes

 

Former Beloved of Eratosthenes

 

An Old Woman

 

Neighbours of Euphiletus

 

Athenian Judges

 

prologos

A dikasterion in Athens

 

Scene 1

(A year or so earlier)

House of Euphiletus in Athens

 

Scene 2

(Several Months after the birth of the child of Euphiletus)

House of Euphiletus

 

Scene 3

Funeral of the Mother of Euphiletus in Athens

 

Scene 4
Festival of the Thesmophoria in Athens

 

Scene 5

Upper chamber in the House of Euphiletus

 

Scene 6

A Street in Athens

 

Scene 7

Lower Chamber in the House of Euphiletus

 

epilogos

A dikasterion in Athens