William Shakespeare · 1607 · mediterranean

Fleeing the murderous secret of Antioch, Pericles Prince of Tyre is tossed across the ancient Mediterranean by shipwreck and fortune, losing his wife Thaisa to a storm at sea and his daughter Marina to pirates, before the sea that scattered his family restores them to him at Mytilene and Ephesus.

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   Tyre

   Pericles's home city, which he flees and returns to as the tyrant Antiochus hunts him for guessing the incestuous riddle of Antioch.

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   Antioch

   The court of King Antiochus, where Pericles wins the right to the princess by solving a riddle whose answer, incest, forces him to flee for his life.

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   Tarsus

   The famine-struck city Pericles relieves with grain, and where he later leaves the infant Marina in the treacherous care of Cleon and Dionyza.

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   Pentapolis

   The North African shore where the shipwrecked Pericles wins Thaisa in a tournament and marries her.

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   Mytilene

   The city of Lesbos where Marina, sold to a brothel by pirates, keeps her virtue and is at last reunited with her grieving father.

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   Ephesus

   The temple of Diana where Thaisa, cast into the sea in a coffin and revived, is restored to Pericles and Marina in the play's final reunion.