Depiction of women and relationship between men and women in Plautus's plays with particular refernce to Pot of Gold
I. Overview of Aulularia (Pot of Gold) and main characters:
Pot of Glod a translation of original latin play "Aulularia" by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus (254-184 BCE). The title has been translated as
The Pot of Gold, and the plot revolves around a literal pot of gold that the miserly protagonist, Euclio, guards zealously. The play’s ending does not survive, though there are indications of how the plot is resolved in later summaries and a few fragments of dialogue.

Dramatis Personae referred to in the paper

The Household God of Euclio, the Prologue.
Euclio, an old gentleman of Athens.
Staphyla, his old lady slave.
Strobilus, slave of Lyconides.
Lyconides, a young gentleman of Athens, Eunomia's son.
Phaedria, Euclio's daughter.

2.Women depicted as subservient to men (as they were in reallife) in Roman Comedy
2. a. The puella is one dramatic stereotype of women in Plautine comedy. The puella is the object of the young lover’s affection and the slave’s efforts and whose marriage frequently provides the happy ending of the comedy.

2.a.(i) One sub-category of the puella is the "absent maiden" who is not seen on stage, offers an illuminating evidence about the status puella in comedy. Since she is totally under the domination of her father or guardian until she is handed over to her husband, she is seen in a positive light, as a paragon of socially approved female virtues. Thus her personality, as well as her consent and even her physical presence, are irrelevant to the comic (non-tragic) action. Her various assets are her birth, her natural beauty, her chastity, her dowry -- and her silence to male domination.

2.a.(ii). The second group of women within the puella stereotype are maidens who speak