The Birds

 CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY

 [Scene:-A wild and desolate region only thickets, rocks, and a single tree are seen. Euelpides and Pithetaerus enter, each with a bird in his hand.]

CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY

  • Euelpides
  • Pithetaerus
  • Trochilus, Servant to Epops
  • Epops (the Hoopoe)
  • A bird
  • A herald
  • A priest
  • A poet
  • An oracle-Monger
  • Meton, a Geometrician
  • An inspector
  • A dealer in decrees
  • Iris
  • A parricide
  • Cinesias, a Dithyrambic Poet
  • An informer
  • Prometheus
  • Posidon
  • Triballus
  • Heracles
  • Slaves of pithetaerus
  • Messengers
  • Chorus of birds