Simulans (The Pretender)

Year: 
57 BC
Genres: 
Comedy
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
Languages: 
Latin
People involved: 
(Dramatist)
Venues and occasions: 
Unknown venue (Rome, Italy) - Ludi Apollinares
Production notes: 
Cicero mentions a performance of a play of this name probably at the Ludi Apollinares of 57BC, a scholiast identifies the author as Afranius, who was active in the second half of the second century. This performance would therefore have been a revival of an old play. See E. Csapo and W.J. Slater, The Context of Ancient Drama (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994), IV 207; A. Daviault (ed.), Comoedia Togata: Fragments (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1981), pp. 52 and 221; R. Beacham, Spectacle Entertainments of early Imperial Rome (New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 58-9.

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Simulans (The Pretender), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/980 <1 February 2025>