Cast
- Stephen Moore as Heraclitus, Aristophanes' brother and tormentor.
- Alan Cox as Aristophanes, playwright, poet, orator, and restaurateur.
- Robert Hardy as Socrates
- Tom George as Plato, Socrates' pupil, who will never amount to much
- Rosemary Leach as Oracle, mother of Heraclitus and Aristophanes.
- Rachel Atkins as Xanthippe, wife of Socrates, and deviant heterosexual (Imelda Staunton in Series 2)
- Gavin Muir as Chorus
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