Year:
59 AD
Scripts:
Genres:
Comedy
Medium of performance:
Fully Staged Play
Languages:
Latin
Known from:
Venues and occasions:
Unknown venue (Rome, Italy) -
Ludi Maximi
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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