Alcestis

Year: 
438 BC
Genres: 
Tragedy
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved: 
(Dramatist)
Venues and occasions: 
Production notes: 
Euripides competed against Sophocles in this Dionysia and came second. His plays were (in order): Cretan Women, Alcmaeon in Psophis, Telephus and Alcestis. N.B. Alcestis was in the place of a satyr drama (proto-satyric) and arguably includes satyric elements.

How to cite this ancient performance

Alcestis, accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/165 <5 November 2024>