APGRD id
716
Year
between 424 and 413 BC
Scripts
Genres
Tragedy
Medium of performance
Fully Staged Play
Languages
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved
Known from
APGRD Notes
Euripides wrote to plays with the title Melanippe, distinguished as Melnaippe the Wise and Melanippe the Captive. We do not know when Melanippe the Wise was produced. It is alluded to in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae (546-8), and so must have been performed before the production of that comedy in 411 BC. It may also be alluded to in Eupolis' Demos, which would set it before 412 BC. It has been suggestd on metrical grounds that this play was produced between 425/3 BC and 416/3 BC TrGF 5.1, p.539). The date range for performance given here is therefore between 424 and 413 BC. The performance venue and location is not certain, but it is assumed here that this play would have been performed in Athens.