Nekros (The Corpse)

Year: 
284 BC
Genres: 
Comedy
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved: 
(Dramatist)
(Dramatist)
Venues and occasions: 
Production notes: 
An inscription from the Didaskalic monument records that Diodorus came second with Nekros (The Corpse), the actor was Aristomachus. Simylus won first prize, with his Ephesia and Diodorus won third with the Mainomenos (Madman); Phoenicides came fourth with the Poet. For actor, see P. Ghiron-Bistagne, Recherches sur les acteurs dans la Grèce antique (Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1976), p. 32, and I.E. Stephanis, Dionysiakoi Technitai: Symboles stên prosôpographia tou theatrou kai tês mousikês tôn archaiôn Hellênôn (Heraklion: University of Crete, 1988), no. 355

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