Abstract
Only two plays (Captiui e Trinummus) of the 21 remaining comedies of Plautus (III-II b.C.) do not have women among their characters. This way, we can't deny the important role of the female characters in the poet's texts. The typology of these characters (and their relevance to the plot) varies as the conventional repertory of the fabula palliata varies. Taking this variation of types int…