Epicharis (1685 Lohenstein), play
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Epicharis <German> (1685) is a play by Daniel Casper von Lohenstein.
Abstract
According to Tacitus, Epicharis was an ancient Roman freedwoman and a leading member of the Pisonian conspiracy against the emperor Nero. She committed suicide in order not to reveal under torture the name of the accomplices.
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Published in Breslau, Germany: E. Fellgiebeln, 1685.