Coriolanus

Coriolanus

Volumnia, mother
1. devoted to her son
2. delights in his military exploits
  1. raised him to be a warrior
Virgilia, wife
1. Valeria, friend
  1. close friends with Volumnia and Virgilia
  2. gossip, fashionable and modern (for the time
    1. "la" => speech style of fashionable lady
2. loyal
3. worried for Cori.
4. foil to Volumnia
Young Martius, son
1. acting like father
  1. all muscle, no brains
  2. enjoys fighting
Tullus Aufidius, enemy
1. general of Volscians
2. Cori's great rival
  1. not quite equal
3. his inability to defeat Corio rankles him
Brutus and Sicinius, Tribunes
1. Roman tribunes against Cori
2. elected by common people
3. regard Cori as danger to class they represent
4. work to keep him out of power
Menenius, friend
1. patrician
2. silver tongued, great wit
  1. uses these to avoid conflict
Cominius, friend
1. patrician of Rome and former consul
2. general against Volscians
Titus Lartius, general
1. old Roman nobleman
2. appointed as general against Volscians
Roman general
1. leads army against Volscian city of Corioles
  1. won and got title "Coriolanus"
real name: Caius Martius
brave, fearsome
honorable, overly proud, immature, inflexible, Pleb hater
1. contempt for lower-class
  1. leads to his exile from Rome

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