Chapter 1Persons of the Drama

ANTIOCHUS TIMOCLES H twin-brothers, Princes of Syria, sons of Nicanor and Cleopatra. NICANOR, of the royal house, general-in-chief of the Syrian armies. THOAS LEOSTHENES H Greek nobles of the Kingdom of Syria, generals of its armies. PHAYLLUS, an official, afterwards Minister of Timocles. PHILOCTETES, a young Greek noble of Egypt, friend of Anti- ochus. MELITUS, a Court official. CALLICRATES, a young Greek noble of Syria. THERAS, a gentleman in waiting. AN EREMITE. CLEOPATRA, an Egyptian princess, sister of the reigning Ptolemy, Queen of Syria; widow successively of King Nicanor and his brother Antiochus. RODOGUNE, a princess of Parthia, prisoner in Antioch. EUNICE, daughter of Nicanor. CLEONE, sister of Phayllus, in attendance on the Queen. MENTHO, an Egyptian woman, nurse of Antiochus. ZO¨YLA, an attendant of Cleopatra.