Year:
408 BC
Scripts:
Genres:
Tragedy
Medium of performance:
Fully Staged Play
Languages:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved:
(Tragic Actor)
(Dramatist)
Venues and occasions:
Theatre of Dionysus (Athens, Attica) -
City Dionysia
Production notes:
This may have been Euripides' last time competing in the Dionysia. During this performance, the tragic actor Hegelochus fluffed the delivery a line to comic effect (by mispronouncing 'galen' he said 'weasel' instead of 'calm') - see scholion on line 279.