Wealth

A father – Chremylos – goes to Delphi to ask the god Apollo what exactly he should do so that his son will have better luck in his life than him. The god tells him that he must follow the first person he meets coming out of the temple. But he is a rag and a blind man! So he must follow a blind man, who knows neither who he is nor what his name is. Later he will learn that he is the god Plutos himself, i.e. the one who distributes the riches – without seeing where and to whom he gives them. Therefore, he also becomes unjust, as long as he is blind, and must therefore regain his light to be able to see and to know where and how he gives wealth. So Chremylos takes Pluto to Asclepius, who heals him, and so now the “blind god” has begun to see again and to know where and how he should give wealth. But when it was learned that Chremylos has the god Pluto in his house, various sly and opportunistic people begin to come to ask Pluto, who can now see, to give them some of his goods and riches. The only one who resists and attacks this new trend of the world is – the great discovery of Aristophanes – Penia, who says that only with her the world progresses, because he struggles to escape from her side, as long as he feels her close to him. With Pluto – says Penia – no one will work, no one will try, no one will create. Everyone and everything will fall into a state of complete indifference, since they will have Pluto by their side anyway, as their protector.