Timeline and Summary

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Timeline and Summary

  • 1.1: Pericles goes to Antioch and takes a crack at a riddle so that he can marry a princess.
  • 1.2: Pericles goes on the lam so that King Antiochus can't mount his head on a wall.
  • 1.4: Pericles takes food to the starving people of Tharsus in exchange for safe haven.
  • 2.1- 3.Prologue: Pericles is the sole survivor of a shipwreck and washes up on the shores of Antioch, where he wins a joust, marries a princess, and finds out he can go home because King Antiochus is dead.
  • 3.1: Pericles loses his wife while at sea and holds his newborn daughter in his arms for the first time.
  • 3.3: Pericles leaves his daughter in Tharsus so Cleon and Dionyza can raise her while he returns home to rule over Tyre.
  • 4.4: After 14 years, Pericles returns to Tharsus to visit his daughter and hears that she is dead. He hops on his boat and starts wandering around the ocean.
  • 5.1: Winds blow Pericles's ship to Meteline, where he's reunited with his daughter.
  • 5.2: Pericles gives Lysimachus permission to marry Marina.
  • 5.3: Pericles goes to Ephesus and bumps into his long lost wife. They decide to live happily ever after in Pentapolis.