house as a servant on those conditions. Performance history Plutus was one of the first Greek plays to be performed using the new (post-Reformation) pronunciation of Greek diphthongs developed by John Cheke and Thomas Smith during the 1530s, when it was enacted at St John's College, Cambridge. References Translations William James Hickie, 1853, prose, The Comedies of Aristophanes, Vol. 2 William Charles Green, 1892 (2nd ed), verse, full text Benjamin B. Rogers, 1924, verse, available for digital loan Arthur S. Way, 1934, verse, Eugene O'Neill Jr., 1938, prose, full text Alan H. Sommerstein, 1978, available for digital loan Jeffrey Henderson, 2002, verse George Theodoridis, 2008, prose, full text External links Plutus at the Internet Classics Archive Plays by Aristophanes Asclepius Plays set in ancient Greece Plays set in Athens Delphi in fiction Plays based on classical mythology