Bacchides

Acts

• 1
  Act 1

  Two young men, two courtesans named Bacchis, and two fathers about to be swindled. The slave Chrysalus plans the greatest fraud since Troy.

  211 lines
• 2
  Act 2

  Mnesilochus believes his friend Pistoclerus has stolen his girlfriend. In fact there are two Bacchis sisters. The misunderstanding escalates.

  240 lines
• 3
  Act 3

  Chrysalus executes his first swindle, extracting money from Mnesilochus' father Nicobulus with a story about pirates.

  250 lines
• 4
  Act 4

  The first scheme is exposed. Chrysalus, undaunted, launches a second, even more audacious deception — comparing himself to Odysseus at Troy.

  668 lines
• 5
  Act 5

  The fathers discover the truth and march to confront the Bacchis sisters. The girls charm them into joining the party. Everyone goes inside happy.

  187 lines