Year:
167 BC
Scripts:
Genres:
Comedy
Medium of performance:
Fully Staged Play
Languages:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Known from:
Venues and occasions:
Theatre of Dionysus (Athens, Attica) -
City Dionysia
Production notes:
Biottus’ play came third after an unknown play by Paramonus and Criton’s Aitolos. A revival of Menander’s Phasma was performed at the same festival. The actor Damon was in Biottus’ play and in the winning play by Paramonus; see I.E. Stephanis, Dionysiakoi Technitai: Symboles stên prosôpographia tou theatrou kai tês mousikês tôn archaiôn Hellênôn (Heraklion: University of Crete, 1988), no. 582, and Ghiron-Bistagne, Recherches sur les acteurs dans la Grèce antique (Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1976), p. 45.