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Egeon

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Also known as: Aegeon

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role in “The Comedy of Errors”

In The Comedy of Errors
Egeon, a merchant of Syracuse, is arrested in Ephesus because of hostilities between the two cities and, unable to pay the local ransom, is condemned to death. He tells the duke, Solinus, his sad tale: years earlier he and his wife had been shipwrecked with…
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