Cinyras

Year: 
336 BC
Scripts: 
Not known
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
People involved: 
(Tragic Actor)
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Production notes: 
The evidence for this performance is late and anecdotal. Josephus tells us that Caligula was murdered when entering the theatre to see Mnestor the pantomime dance the tragedy, Cinyras, which Neoptolemus had acted at the contest when Philip of Macedon was killed.
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How to cite this ancient performance

Cinyras, accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/45 <25 December 2024>