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Plautus: Pot of Gold
UNIT 2 POT OF GOLD-I
Structure
2.0 Objectives
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Prologue
2.3 Euclio and the Slaves
2.4 The Marriage Proposal: Implications
2.5 The Slave Pageant
2.6 Let Us Sum Up
2.7 Glossary
2.8 Questions

2.0 OBJECTIVES
This unit will acquaint us with a brief summary and introduce important themes
in the first half of the play Pot of Gold. Some of these are the speech of
Lar Familiaris, Euclio as miser, Megadorus’s marriage proposal for Euclio’s
daughter, Phaedria and the slave pageant. The focus will remain on the use
of language to build Euclio’s character as a miser and the implications of
Megadorus’s marriage proposal. There will also be a discussion of stage space
given to the slaves in the play.

2.1 INTRODUCTION
Aulularia or Pot of Gold like most other Roman Comedies falls within the
tradition of the fabula palliata. These were Roman adaptations of the Greek
originals. In the hands of Plautus these underwent significant changes as the
stock characters from Greek plays were placed in a Roman setting. The issues
taken up, the social setting and the humour was akin to the world of the Roman
audience. As suggested in the previous unit, Plautus and Terence reworked
the Greek plays but instead of the style of the Old Comedy they responded
to the idea of New Comedy. According to Costas Panayotakis in “Comedy,
Atellane Farce and Mime”

[Plautus] makes his Greek characters allude to Roman customs,


stresses the motif of treachery and deceit, sacrifices subtlety of
character-portrayal to amusingly violent images of verbal and visual
humour, and (most importantly) gives a new dimension to the
character of the cunning slave, who dominates the action and
becomes not only the hero of the play but also the poet’s alter ego.
‘Plautopolis’ (as Gratwick 1982 happily called it) is a topsy-turvy
world, in which everything is possible (Harrison 135-136)
Pot of Gold is a continuous play without division into acts or scenes. The
action of the play takes place on a street in Athens. This might have suited
the structure of the stage generally seen as lengthwise. According to stage
instructions, the two houses are separated by a shrine dedicated to Fides
representing Trust; a quality that is subject to suspicion by the miser at every
point in the play. The two important characters mentioned at the beginning are
Euclio and Megadorus. There is an altar opposite the rich man’s house. The
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UNIT 3 POT OF GOLD-II
Structure
3.0 Objectives
3.1 Introduction
3.2 A View of Society in Rome
3.3 The People of Rome
3.4 Taking the Plot ahead
3.5 The Audience in Plautus’s Plays
3.6 ‘Renouncing’ Phaedria
3.7 The Ending
3.8 Let Us Sum Up
3.9 Glossary
3.10 Questions

3.0 OBJECTIVES
In the previous unit we looked at the construction of characters and the
beginnings of the plot line. The first part of the play establishes Euclio as a
miser. Megadorus’s proposal of marriage to Euclio’s daughter has been
accepted and the servants are busy executing orders for the wedding feast.
In this chaos, Euclio moves his pot of gold outside the house and a new string
of events begin. This unit will acquaint us with further developments in the plot
line. It will help us understand Roman society with special reference to the
position of women and slaves. In this unit, we will also be able to get a broad
spectrum picture of the different social groups in Rome apart from the slaves
and the masters.

3.1 INTRODUCTION
Having said that let us analyse Megadorus’s speech further to try and see what
Roman society of that time was like. To understand the worldview of the Romans
it is important to look at their attitude towards the institution of marriage and
the position of women within it. Megadorus’s musings on marriage give an insight
into the workings of Roman society. We understand the treatment meted out
to women both in terms of class and gender.

3.2 A VIEW OF SOCIETY IN ROME


From Megadorus’s speech, it is clear that the Romans followed a system of
dowry. Megadorus shares with the audience the anxieties related to the dowry
brought by the rich women in marriage. He prefers his stance of marrying a
young virtuous girl without any dowry. The advantages as he sees it are many.
Firstly, he equates virtue with poverty. The idea is that women without dowry
are the virtuous ones. Secondly, he believes they would be far less extravagant.
The absence of any financial strength from their parents’ side would also keep
them demure in front of their husbands. In short, marrying a woman without
dowry would give the man an advantage. In contrast, the women with dowry
are seen as arrogant and spendthrifts. According to Megadorus, their greed
is beyond measure. Further, they left no stone unturned in driving home to their
husbands the benefits of dowry. In the light of these initial comments take a
close look at Megadorus’s speech: 27
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UNIT 4 POT OF GOLD: CRITICAL
PERSPECTIVES
Structure
4.0 Objectives
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Fabula Palliata
4.3 The Structure of the Pot of Gold
4.4 Euclio as “agelast”
4.5 Dowry, Market and Acquisition in The Pot of Gold
4.6 Ending of The Pot of Gold
4.7 Let Us Sum Up
4.8 Hints to Check Your Progress
4.9 Glossary
4.10 Suggested Readings & References

4.0 OBJECTIVES
In this unit we shall take up, in detail, the important issues in The Pot of Gold
and the perspective of modern day critics towards them. The themes and ideas
analysed here are the structure of the play as a Fabula Palliate, Euclio and
Phaedria’s alienation from society, and the ensuing process of their social
integration. The composition of Roman society, system of dowry and the
institution of marriage will be examined with respect to changes in the market
and social practices of the times. Finally we will be acquainted with the
implications of the ending of the play.

4.1 INTRODUCTION
This section will focus on the structure of the Roman comedy and Plautus’s
role as playwright in contributing to it a certain form. The Roman comedies
of Plautus and Terence are referred to as the Fabula Palliata. What then
was the Fabula Palliate? We shall examine that next.

4.2 FABULA PALLIATA


Fabula Palliate were re-workings or adaptations of the original Greek plays.
Characters and broad plot outlines remained the same but playwrights such as
Plautus were able to introduce in them the context of Rome, its people, society
and the issues concerning the Romans. For instance take a look at these lines
from the prologue to the play The Brothers Menaechmus:
Now here’s the plot. Please listen with your whole attention span;
I’ll tell it in the very fewest words I can.
[A digression] Now comic poets do this thing in every play:
‘It all takes place in Athens, folks,’ is what they say.
So that way everything will seem more Greek to you.
But I reveal the real locations when I speak to you.
This story’s Greekish, but to be exact,
It’s not Athenish, it’s Sicilyish, in fact. (6-12) 37
Plautus: Pot of Gold So from within the fold of the fabula palliata, different situations within the
Roman context were brought to the fore. The references to Greek places or
contexts was interesting as it allowed the audience to accept the subversive
elements in the plays as they watched under the illusion that this was happening,
say in Athens. But, the situations, humour, context was that of Rome. Moreover,
the audience would have understood these plays as Roman plays, remaining
unfamiliar with their Greek originals, an idea that critics have often pointed out.
Check Your Progress 1
1. Analyse the Pot of Gold as a Fibula Palliata.
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4.3 THE STRUCTURE OF THE POT OF GOLD


As a result, the audience sees a confluence of varied cultural influences with
aspects they could relate to and enjoy. The “Greekish” was merged with the
“Sicilyish”. Plautus not only emphasised that his performers were both actors
and characters; he also kept his audience continually aware that the actors/
characters were both Greek and Roman. Plautus’s plays are generally set in
Greek locales. The characters make allusions to Greek customs even as they
present to the Roman audience mannerisms that belong to them and not Greece.
As Timothy Moore explains this idea:
Even as his use of Greek settings distanced his characters from his
audience’s reality, therefore, Plautus played with the setting in such
a way as to bring those characters closer to home. At the same time,
geographical allusions contributed significantly to both the humour
and the metatheatrical nature of his plays…Through most of Aulularia,
the setting is a vague foreign locale. There are no explicit allusions
to the play’s setting in Athens until, late in the play, Lyconides’ slave
enters with Euclio’s stolen pot of gold and crows, “quis me Athenis
nunc magis quisquam est homo cui di sint propitii?” (“Who is there
in Athens now to whom the gods are kinder than they are to me?”
810). When the slave’s audacity reaches its height, Plautus underlines
the Athenian setting. (59-60)
So from the point of view of the audience despite a Greek locale, the larger
rubric of issues, language and humour, remained Roman. The comic effect
became increasingly layered and took the audience through complex issues while
maintaining a level of ease, given the illusion that this was happening in Greece.
This is where the convergence of the Greek structure and the Roman socialisation
of the same acquires meaning. As Moore points out this idea was particularly
productive when it came to the portrayal of the slaves. These people otherwise
expected to be loyal, with only one voice—that of the master, were seen playing
truant. They experimented with thoughts and desired freedom, an idea forbidden
to them. Moore’s assertion of metatheatricality in Plautus’s plays is significant
as it tells us that the moment the play becomes difficult for the audience to
handle it is displaced to its antecedent. There is a “theatrical self-consciousness”
as Plautus is able to “re-theatricalise an alien drama for his Roman audience”
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(Slater 6). This juxtaposition of the Greek model with the Roman context led Pot of Gold : Critical
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to the presentation of a wide range of issues ranging from love, and marriage
to dowry.
In Unit-I we looked at the difference between the style of Old comedy and
the New comedy. The Roman plays inclined more towards New comedy than
to the earlier Greek form of Old comedy. We must keep in mind that where
the Old Comedy focussed on issues political, New Comedy worked around
different parameters. According to Costas Panayotakis in “Comedy, Atellane
Farce and Mime”:
The successful adoption and original adaptation of Greek New
Comedy by Roman theatrical culture was not an isolated artistic
phenomenon, but should be seen in the wider context of the cultural
influence Greece–through military conquests and merchants’ travels
to Greek-speaking lands – exerted on Roman civilization in terms
of literature, morals and material culture, and also in relation to the
current political circumstances: it was safer to deride fictional
characters and social institutions rather than real individuals, and
it was even more convenient if these were associated with a foreign
nation. On the other hand, the amusingly chaotic world of Roman
adaptations of Greek New Comedy, and the subversion of the social
hierarchy witnessed in them, served both as a pleasant break from
the routine of everyday life and as a case of ‘negative exemplarity’:
the plays with their happy endings featuring the punishment of the
bad and the reward of the good functioned as a salutary re-
enforcement of the values, order and discipline that traditional
Romans so strongly advocated for their families and themselves.
(Harrison 131-132)
Therefore, apart from the shift from the wider social canvas to the individual
or the family unit, we also learn that there is a sense of “chaos” presented
on stage. And this chaos is “subversive”. Even though the plays might end with
restoring order as Panayotokis points out, it is in the chaos that the challenge
to the social order can be located. This is the purpose and function of the
metatheatricality visible in the play. The critic explains how, “Plautus neither
translates faithfully nor adapts loosely his Greek originals: he transforms them
into extravagant musical shows, and essentially alters both the substance of Greek
New Comedy and the social hierarchy of his time. (Harrison 135). And it
is in this transformation that the creative genius of the playwright can be seen.
We said that we would look at Euclio and Phaedria’s alienation from society.
Lets’ begin by discussing Euclio next.

4.4 EUCLIO AS “AGELAST”


From a reading of his plays one can understand that as a playwright, Plautus
understood the world through the lens of realism. He was able to see things
for what they were. We need to keep in mind that Plautus was “the first
professionally self-supporting playwright in the history of world literature” (Slater
6). His awareness of the ground reality and its theatricalisation can be seen
with clarity in his plays.
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Plautus: Pot of Gold The title of the play, Pot of Gold draws immediate attention to the importance
given to money and as a consequence, Euclio’s character demands attention.
Who is this person and what aspect of Roman society does he represent?
According to Segal in Roman Laughter:
The Romans had a violent aversion to spending anything, as Polybius
notes further: “their punctiliousness about expenditures is as intense
as their compulsion to turn every second of time into profit”
(31.27.11). One of Plautus’ most brilliant characters, Euclio the miser,
reflects this trait, caricatured to absurdity. He would not only refuse
to expend the energy for laughter, but he is parsimonious even with
his ordinary breath. (54-55)
Segal’s views provide an insight into the workings of Roman society. So, here
is a character who is obsessed with preserving gold so much so that he does
not let it come into circulation. The miser does not try to increase his wealth
nor does he spend it. He does not reveal his newly acquired status for fear
of theft. It seems as if his possession of the gold is a moment of stasis that
will not allow any change. This extreme attitude to wealth, as Segal explains,
reflects on the Roman’s aversion to spending; an idea that is challenged in the
play. There are many ways of looking at the figure of the miser, Euclio.
Ostensibly, he is a person fixated with guarding his pot of gold. The treasure
is wealth that has been transferred from one generation to the next as mentioned
by the household god, Lar Familiaris. The household god informs the audience
how Euclio did not belong to the upper crust of the society, despite being
in possession of the pot of gold. The Lar chose to not reveal it to his
predecessors as they did not pay allegiance to him. As a result the gold is
not wealth that has added to the family’s assets at any point in time. It remains
a frozen entity. The Lar presents the prologue and the series of events that
will take place. He also determines the plot by playing around with the hidden
wealth, the pot of gold. According to Alison Sharrock:
Irrelevant though it is directly to the plot, however, the series also
has a programmatic effect, for this play will be about the proper
movement of property between the generations – and it is that which
was so sadly lacking in Euclio’s ancestry. The Lar has given us, in
effect, ‘spare’ information. (35)
This “spare” information gives us an idea of Euclio’s world. The prologue
explains clearly that Euclio has been given this pot of gold so it can be passed
on to his daughter, Phaedria as she had served the household god with sincerity.
So far this has been stagnant wealth, not part of any social transaction. Euclio,
as miser, is seen not only as guardian of this wealth, but also as a misanthrope
who does not participate in any socialisation of money or relations. In short,
he is placed outside the socio-economic discourse.
In this context, Eric Segal elaborates the figure of the “agelast” who denies
the pleasure principle of a comedy. He is also referred to as the spoilsport.
Come what may he finds it difficult to participate in the comic strain of the
play. According to Segal:
This group of “spoilsports,” incapable of play, constitute the antagonists
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to the comic spirit. In one way or another, but usually in a literal Pot of Gold : Critical
Perspectives
sense, they remain “on the job.”… These non-players are also non-
laughers, and in the discussion to follow they will be referred to as
“agelasts,” (70)
Akin to Malvolio in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Segal sees Euclio as a
person who is unable to participate in any form of laughter in the play. An
interesting explanation is given by Segal for the genesis of this figure. According
to the critic, there were enough number of people in Roman society pre-occupied
with everyday matters related to money. This prevented them from partaking
in the joyous aspects of society even when it did not cost them anything. Segal
explains thus:
As we have already demonstrated, the average Roman was preoccupied
with financial matters, and to enjoy himself he would have had to
banish from his mind not some vague “loathed Melancholy” but a
very specific concern about money. This fact explains why the
Plautine agelast is almost always connected with alienum aes, a bill
to be paid… But the most common trait of the Plautine agelast is
greed, an obsession with lucrum, making him a caricature of the
typical materialistic Roman. Euclio, the miser in the Aulularia, is
perhaps the most famous example. (75-76)
As a miser, Euclio is the “agelast” not so much for being melancholic but for
his greed regarding the pot of gold. Segal further points out how Plautus’s
miser displays a series of “anti-holiday” attitudes. He refuses to enjoy any moment
in his life even when he does not have to spend anything. If we relate this
to the idea of social participation, then we see how through use of exaggeration
and the comic mode, Plautus comments on the people obsessed with concerns
of wealth. Therefore, such people are unable to enjoy anything at all. However,
as pointed out by Segal, Euclio, unlike other agelasts is finally well integrated
into the society. We must remember that this only happens once he is rid of
the pot of gold.
David Konstan in “Social themes in Aulularia” sees figures such as that of
the miser as a misanthrope. They remain outside society and due to their
obsession sever all ties with the social world. If comedy is seen as an “affirmation
to community” then the play is also about the integration of this misanthrope.
The misanthrope and the miser, on the contrary, have themselves their
ties with society. It is they who will not marry or allow their characters
to marry, they who will not engage in commerce with their fellows
which is the right use of wealth….the miser and the misanthrope,
resolve its inner bonds and encyst themselves within society as internal
exiles. (308)
Euclio can be seen as this figure of the “internal exile”. He refuses to
communicate with anyone in society. He goes to an extreme and rejects the
role of the helpful neighbour and instructs Staphyla to refuse anything that the
neighbours ask for. This is a kind of self-imposed isolation from society. In
explaining the role of the citizen in society, Konstan explains the “twin principle”
on which citizenship was constituted—‘‘ius connubii et commercii, the right
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Plautus: Pot of Gold of marriage and of commerce”. According to Konstan these two ideas form
the basis of the relationship between the citizen and the society. Going by this
principle both Euclio and Phaedria remain outside the contract that forms the
basis of the society. According to Konstan, they are placed outside civilised
bounds in a state of violence. Euclio, by not engaging in the process of
commercial transaction restricts the wealth and makes its use value static. Having
been raped, Phaedria will not be seen as part of the structure of marriage
by the forces in power. They both remain outside the integrative principles of
society. The miser soon becomes a misanthrope as he does not participate in
any social process. Whenever, he interacts with people it is only to maintain
the pretence of being a poor man. Konstan sees these two instances in the
play as intimately related. According to the critic,
… the rape is the expression in the sphere of sex of the miser’s isolation,
just as the theft is its expression in the sphere of property.” (312)
The connections between the pot of gold and Phaedria’s pregnant condition
have been suggested by C W Marshall. The critic states:
In Aulularia, Euclio’s pot of gold possesses a symbolic value that
exists because he treasures it disproportionately over his pregnant
daughter, Phaedria. In what survives of the play, she does not appear
on stage, but is heard giving birth at 691–2. However, when the pot
appears at 449, ‘the effect is like the first appearance of an important
character which we have been waiting to see’.196 Euclio is shrouding
the pot with his cloak, and consequently embodies a pregnant image
of his unseen daughter. (71)
Alison Sharrock too sees a kind of duality in the play. This refers to the
connections say between the pot of gold and the pot-bellied daughter. Both
Konstan and Sharrock see a duality regarding the loss of gold and the rape
of the daughter. So the two situations are closely bound to each other. As the
end of the play will testify, it is only when the pot of gold is given away in
marriage to Lyconides, then both Euclio and Phaedria become a part of the
social processes and there is peace. Dowry is a term we in India are extremely
familiar with. Dowry existed even in ancient Europe. Lets’ see what dowry
meant then and there (ancient Rome), as opposed to here and in these present
time next.
Check Your Progress 2
1. Analyse Euclio as an “agelast” or a spoilsport in the play.
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4.5 DOWRY, MARKET AND ACQUISITION IN THE


POT OF GOLD
Marriage is an important issue often taken up in Plautus’s comedies. When
we analyse The Pot of Gold, we must understand that Plautus’s presentation
42 of marriage is seemingly simplistic. Beneath this veneer some uneasy questions,
that have a bearing on the Roman sensibility of the times, are raised. The play Pot of Gold : Critical
Perspectives
is based on the rape of Phaedria and the theft of the pot of gold. This idea
is presented to the audience in the prologue in the speech of the household
god, Lar Familiaris. According to him, “An upper-class young man has
ravished” Phaedria. The word “ravished” is a euphemism for rape within the
comic mode.

In the process of the integration of the miser into society, it is also important
to reintegrate, Phaedria within marriage. The two ideas are closely linked and
it is imperative that both cases be resolved for the play to move towards being
a comedy. In the case where even one strand is left hanging the play will cease
to be a comedy. Before we understand the critical perspectives marriage in
this play, let us look at its construction in Rome. Marriage was a kind of contract
and there was a system of dowry in place. There were two systems on which
this contract was based—cum manu and sine manu. In the first kind of contract,
the married woman came under the legal guardianship of her husband and shared
her dowry with him. She became independent only after his death. In the second
case, the married woman continued under the guardianship of her father, even
though she shared her dowry with her husband. Susanna Morton Braund
in “Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce in Roman Comic Drama” explains these
ideas thus:

Elisabeth Schuhmann suggests that Plautus may be involved in


polemic against an increase in marriage sine manu, a shift away from
traditional marriage cum manu, according to which, on her marriage,
a woman passed from the legal power of her father or guardian into
the jurisdiction, or manus, of her husband, and any property she
brought to marriage passed to her husband. At this period, more and
more marriages were contracted sine manu, which left the woman
in her father’s power but meant that after his death she was sui
juris (legally independent, with the proviso that a guardian, or tutor,
was appointed—this being fairly notional in some cases) and could
own property in her own right. If this is correct, this shift is clearly
a diminution of the husband’s power and authority. Not that hostility
toward married women owning property in their own right is confined
to the ancient world: compare the opposition to the Married Women’s
Property Bills of 1857 and 1870. (Smith 50)

Under the seemingly simple comic structure debates and discussions relevant
to the time were taken up by Plautus. The playwright draws attention towards
the discomfort of men in power with any kind of financial fortification of the
women in society. If as Braund elaborates, there was a shift to a system of
marriage that kept the woman relatively free from the control of the husband,
one can sense disquiet as expressed by Megadorus especially with respect to
“dowried” women. His comments on dowry and marriage put forth the anxieties
of the husband who is resentful of a somewhat strong partner. Further as
Konstan points out there is also the repealment of the lex oppi in the backdrop.
Paul B Harvey Jr. explains the law of Lex Oppia in detail, in the context
of the historicity and attempts to date specific plays. In the context of the Pot
of Gold, the critic states:
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Plautus: Pot of Gold Many have argued that the Aulularia should be dated to 195 or shortly
thereafter, because this play contains allusions to the debate on lex
Oppia held that year. That suputuary law passed in 215 and repealed
in 195, forbade Roman women from conspicuous display in the form
of multicoloured garments (construed in most ancient sources as
purple), extravagant gold jewellery and transport. (300)
The critic points out that this may not be “cogent evidence” for the drama’s
date. For the purpose of discussion, however, the understanding of the debate
around women and their finances is enlightening. The lex Oppia was a law
that sought to control the display of wealth by women. However against the
backdrop of the Punic wars and rising prosperity, this show of affluence became
important. The repealment of this law, affirming display as financial assertion,
must have led to the chagrin of husbands who could no longer control the
extravagant ways of the dowried women. Megadorus’s speech expresses these
concerns.
This show of riches is to be read in tandem with the presence of a group
of people who now facilitate this display. They provide new items to lure the
attention of the upper class and provide for their own existence. The Pot of
Gold gives us a glimpse into these people in Roman society. In terms of social
composition, the people are not just from two broad groups of the rich and
the poor. The Plautine world presents a wider and more colourful social canvas.
This group comprises the “jeweller”, “embroider”, “violet-dyer”, “sandal
maker” and so on. These workers must have been there but in a country
increasingly powerful and subject to cross-cultural encounters there is a new
kind of market mobility that emerges. We can deduce two important factors
regarding the social composition of the times. Firstly, in the play, we encounter
a society making a marked shift from a stark and austere one to an acquisitive
one. The Roman habit of not spending, no longer holds ground against a group
of people who are introducing new commodities. The women take to this group
of workers who present to them fabric in purple and gold indicating desire for
more commodities. Secondly, this increase in the purchasing power of women
disturbs the men who can no longer exercise control over the finances of the
upper class women.
Having understood the implications of dowry and display of wealth, there is
another functional aspect to the system of dowry as pointed out by David
Konstan He sees it as a measure of integration in society. This is the reason
that the pot of gold must eventually be given to Lyconides for Phaedria’s social
well-being. But the critic also explains how dowry is now a marker of wealth
wherein it is now equated with money.
Check Your Progress 3
1. What do you understand of the institution of marriage and the system of
dowry in The Pot of Gold?
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