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Ancient Performance

Telephus

APGRD id
460
Year
between 340 and 300 BC
Scripts
Genres
Tragedy
Languages
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved
Known from
APGRD Notes
We do not know when any of Moschion's plays were produced and even establishing the dates of his career is problematic. His name survives inscribed on a statue which was put up in 300 BC. If this is taken to commemorate his death, then he would have been producing tragedies in the second half of the 4th century. The date range for performance offered here is based on this assumption. Others date him to the 3rd century BC. It is not known where his plays were performed, although Athens seems at least a possibilty, given that Moschion himself was Athenian (TrGF1, 97 Moschion T1, p.263) and that he wrote a Themistocles.