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About The Book: The Pot of Gold is a play by Plautus. It is a comedy about a man who tries to hoard his wealth and the various people who attempt to steal it from him.Euclio’s household god reveals to him the location of a pot of gold, which Euclio then jealously guards.Phaedria, Euclio’s daughter, is pregnant by Lyconides but betrothed to Megadorus, whom Euclio suspects of wanting his gold.Phaedria ultimately marries Lyconides instead, and Euclio gives the couple the pot of gold as a wedding gift after recovering it from Strobilus. About The Author: Titus Maccius Plautus was born in Sarsina, Umbria, in about 254 BC, and was originally named, after his father, Titus. Little is known of his life, but it is believed that he went to Rome when young and worked as a stage assistant. His potential as an actor was discovered and he acquired two other names: Maccius, derived perhaps from the name of a clown in popular farce, and Plautus, a cognomen meaning ‘flat-footed’. Somehow Plautus saved enough capital to go into business as a merchant shipper, but this venture collapsed, and he worked (says the tradition) as a miller’s laborer, and in his spare time studied Greek drama. From the age of forty onwards he achieved increasing success as an adaptor of Greek comedies for the Roman stage. Much of his work seems to be original, however, and not mere translation. He was rewarded by being granted Roman citizenship. According to Cicero he died in 184 BC.