Emperor and Galilean

CHARACTERS.

• The Emperor Contstantius.
• The Empress Eusebia.
• The Princess Helena, the Emperor’s sister.
• Prince Gallus, the Emperor’s cousin.
• Prince Julian, Gallus’s younger half-brother.
• Memnon, an Ethiopian, the Emperor’s body-slave.
• Potamon, a goldsmith.
• Phocion, a dyer.
• Eunapius, a hairdresser.
• A Fruit-seller.
• A Captain of the Watch.
• A Soldier.
• A Painted Woman.
• A Paralytic Man.
• A Blind Beggar.
• Agathon, son of a Cappadocian vine-grower.
• Libanius, a Philosopher.
• Gregory of Nazianzus.
• Basil of Caesarea.
• Sallust of Perusia.
• Hekebolius, a Theologian.
• Maximus the Mystic.
• Eutherius, Julian’s chamberlain.
• Leontes, a Quaestor.
• Myrrha, a slave.
• Decentius, a Tribune.
• Sintula, Julian’s Master of the Horse.
• Florentius,
  Severus, } Generals.
• Oribases, a Physician.
• Laipso,
  Varro, } Subalterns.
• Maurus, a Standard-bearer.
• Soldiers, church-goers, heathen onlookers, courtiers, priests, students, dancing girls, servants, the Quaestor’s retinue, Gallic warriors.
• Visions and voices.

The first act passes in Constantinople, the second in Athens, the third in Ephesus, the fourth in Lutetia in Gaul, and the fifth in Vienna [Vienne] in the same province. The action takes place during the ten years between A.D. 351 and A.D. 361.