Humanity

Because the play as a whole consists of a series of short individualized stories, there is no one central character that appears throughout. A few characters appear in more than one of those stories, or mini-plays, but those characters are the gods – Zeus, Aphrodite, Hermes, Apollo – and they make their appearances as observers of the action, or as secondary motivators, or as entities whose choices resolve a conflict. They do not drive the action, nor are they its focus. Combine this with the fact that each story / mini-play has its own set of protagonists, is there a protagonist of the piece as a whole?

There is no single individual protagonist per se, but there is a sense of single identity that could be identified as a protagonist. The characters whose needs, emotions, and intentions drive each of the stories / mini-plays all have one thing in common – a longing...