Incendium (The Fire)

Year: 
59 AD
Genres: 
Comedy
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
Languages: 
Latin
People involved: 
(Dramatist)
(Host)
Venues and occasions: 
Production notes: 
According to Suetonius (Nero 11.2), Nero arranged a spectacular performance of Afranius’ play (written in the second century) in which the fire was real. See Comoedia Togata: Fragments, ed. A. Daviault (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1981), p. 52, and E. Champlin, Nero (Cambridge, MA), p.70.

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Incendium (The Fire), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/981 <9 January 2025>