Ode to a Banker

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
Old Stagers

M. Didius Falco/Dillius Braco/Ditrius Basto – a well-known Roman

Helena Justina -a heroine (a loyal reader)

Ma (Junilla Tacita) -a canny depositor

Pa (Gerninus) -a chipped old block

Maia Favonia (a sister) -a late-developing job-seeker

Junia (another sister) -a skilled staff manager

Rutilius Gallicus – a high profile spare time scribbler

Anacrites – a low lyer with variable interests;

A. Camillus Aelianus – an ill-equipped aristocratic trainee;

Gloccus and Cotta – invisible bathhouse contractors;

Numerous children, dogs, pregnancies and pups;

The Vigiles

Petronius Longus

Fusculus

Passus

Sergius

The World of the Arts

Aurelius Chrysippus -a patron of literature (a swine) a scroll-seller (a good critic) (a what?)

Euschemon – an old hand with attitude

Avienus – a historian with writer's block

Turius – a utopian with allergies (to work) the Shakespeare (Bacon?) of his day

Urbanus Trypho – a dramatist?

Anna, Trypho's wife – who may have a way with her

Pacuvius (Scrutator) – a bad-mouthing satirist (extinct species)

Constrictus Blitis – a love poet who needs to be dumpedfrom a writers' group (not writing at present)

From Commerce

Nothokleptes – a thieving bastard (a banker)

Aurelius Chrysippus (him again) – a secretive businessman

Lucrio – a personal banking executive (unsafe deposits)

Bos – a big man who explains bank charges

Diomedes – a very religious son with artistic hobbies

Lysa (first wife of Chrysippus) – a maker of men and their businesses (hard feelings)

Vibia (second wife of ditto) – a keen home-maker (soft furnishings)

Pisarchus – a shipping magnate who may be sunk

Philomelus – his son, a drudge with a dream

Stock Characters

Domitian – a Young Prince (a hater)

Aristagoras – an Old Man (a lover?)

An old woman – a Witness

Perella – a Dancer