Aristophanes · c. 446-386 BC
Plutus
ΠλοῦτοςRead our guide to Wealth. The Plutus, also known as Wealth, was produced in 388 BC. The poor old Athenian Chremylus, on the advice of Apollo, follows a blind stranger home and finds that he is Wealth himself, blinded by Zeus so that he cannot tell the good from the bad. Chremylus and his slave Cario take him to the temple of Asclepius to be cured, and when he sees again the just grow rich and the rogues are ruined, while the gods lose their offerings. The sections follow the play's dramatic units and keep the standard line numbers of the Greek text.
Contents · 11 passages
- 1–76Prologue: Cario and the blind stranger659 words
- 77–252Prologue: Wealth reveals himself and the plan to cure him1563 words
- 253–321Parodos: Cario summons the farmers798 words
- 322–414cEpisode: Blepsidemus and the risk of wealth844 words
- 415–626Agon: Chremylus and Poverty debate wealth2658 words
- 627–770Episode: Cario reports the cure of Wealth1171 words
- 771–822Episode: Wealth returns and the house overflows421 words
- 823–958Episode: the Good Man and the Informer1265 words
- 959–1096Episode: the Old Lady and the Youth1285 words
- 1097–1170Episode: Hermes comes begging659 words
- 1171–1209Exodos: the Priest and the closing procession345 words
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English translation by Benjamin Bickley Rogers (1924). Original text: Greek text: F. W. Hall and W. M. Geldart (eds.), Aristophanis Comoediae, Oxford Classical Texts, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906-1907, as digitised by Perseus. English: Benjamin Bickley Rogers, Aristophanes, vol. III, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann, and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924.
Greek text and translation from the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, Greek: CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library); translation public domain (Rogers). Introductions, summaries and notes © GreekMythology.com.
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