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The Birds

Dramatis Personae

EUELPIDES

PISTHETAERUS

EPOPS (the Hoopoe)

TROCHILUS, Servant to Epops

PHOENICOPTERUS

HERALDS

A PRIEST

A POET

A PROPHET

METON, a Geometrician

A COMMISSIONER

A DEALER IN DECREES

IRIS

A PARRICIDE

CINESIAS, a Dithyrambic Bard

AN INFORMER

PROMETHEUS

POSIDON

TRIBALLUS

HERACLES

SLAVES OF PISTHETAERUS

MESSENGERS

CHORUS OF BIRDS

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