Racine: Phaedra

DRAMATIS PERSONJE
Demus.—A personification of the Athenian people, a quarrelsome,
selfish, suspicious old man, a tyrant to his slaves,
with the exception of one, the Paphlagonian, Cleon, by
whom he is cajoled and deceived.
NiciAS and Demosthenes.—Two most able generals of Athens,
of very opposite characters ; the one cautious and superstitious
; the other a hearty, resolute, jolly fellow, who
loves good wine. These two, the servants of the public,
are naturally introduced as the slaves of Demus.
Cleon.— ^The Tanner (as he is called from his property con-
sisting in a leather manufactory), or the Paphlagonian.
He is represented as a fawning, obsequious slave, inso-
lent and haughty to all except his master.
A Sausage-Seller, whose name, Agoracritus, is not declared
till towards the conclusion of the play, is the person an-
nounced by the Oracle as ordained by fate to baffle Cleon,
and to supersede him in the favor of his master.
Chorus.