Gycia: A Tragedy in Five Acts

A five-act stage tragedy set in historical Cherson centers on the Archon Lamachus's daughter and a visiting prince whose arrival provokes disputes over hospitality, rank, and alliance. Civic pride and personal loyalties collide as citizens, nobles, and senators confront insults, uprisings, and rival ambitions. The action moves through public ceremonies, private confrontations, council deliberations, and scenes of confinement, revealing how honor, desire, and political calculation entangle families and the state. Tensions escalate toward a somber dramatic resolution in which public decisions have intense private consequences.