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Amphitryon Written by Plautus Characters Mercury Jupiter Sosia (Amphitryon’s slave) Amphitryon Alcmena (Amphitryon’s wife) Blepharo (ship’s pilot) Bromia (Alcmena’s maid) Setting Thebes, before the house of Amphitryon Amphitryon or Amphitruo is a Latin play for the early Roman theatre by playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. It is Plautus’ only play on a mythological subject; he refers to it as a tragicomoedia (tragic comedy) in the prologue. The play is mostly extant, but includes several large missing sections in its latter portion. The plot of the play involves Amphitryon’s jealous and confused reaction to Alcmena’s seduction by Jupiter, and ends with the birth of Hercules.