This is described as a play of deception and misunderstanding in which a marriage that everyone desires almost fails to happen, two women and a baby are almost ruined, and a loving father almost loses his only son, because the people at home and the people abroad have both been doing things behind each other s backs but somehow everything ends happily after all We don t actually know if everyone desires the wedding because the bride gets no say in the matter She has no lines and never speaks and [...]

Read for class Ancient Greek comedy A son and his father who take themselves way too seriously and anyone else not very seriously at all The son has a secret baby with the neighbor s daughter while the father is away, has it raised by the Samian prostitute his father s involved with, and when the father comes home and finds the baby he thinks it s her baby and his son s Funny when the men are bombastically yelling at each other, not so funny when they re driving the Samian out into the street or [...]

Una storia piatta, come un foglio di carta bianco Pseudo commedia letta per la scuola.

An entertaining work, albeit a minor one Romantic comedy for the Hellenistic age.