Year:
365 BC
Scripts:
Genres:
Tragedy
Medium of performance:
Fully Staged Play
Languages:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Venues and occasions:
Production notes:
Demosthenes in his speech 'On the Embassy' alludes to, and criticises, Aeschines' performance in a play about the House of Thyestes. It is uncertain that the play was Euripides' Thyestes, but it remains a likely candidate. If this is rhetorical spin and Aeschines never in fact performed in this play, the speech at least demonstrates that it was possible in 330 BC to imagine such a performance taking place in Attica. The date for the performance given here follows TrGF1 Did., p.18.