Year:
284 BC
Scripts:
Genres:
Comedy
Medium of performance:
Fully Staged Play
Languages:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved:
(Comic Actor)
(Dramatist)
Known from:
Venues and occasions:
Theatre of Dionysus (Athens, Attica) -
Lenaea
Production notes:
An inscription from the Didaskalic monument records that Phoenicides came fourth with The Poet, the actor’s name is damaged but Ghiron-Bistagne suggests Antiphanes. Simylus won first prize, with his Ephesia and Diodorus came second with the Nekros (The Corpse) and third with the Mainomenos (Madman). For actor, see I.E. Stephanis, Dionysiakoi Technitai: Symboles stên prosôpographia tou theatrou kai tês mousikês tôn archaiôn Hellênôn (Heraklion: University of Crete, 1988), no. 220, and P. Ghiron-Bistagne, Recherches sur les acteurs dans la Grèce antique (Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1976), p. 32.