Year:
between 445 and 405 BC
Scripts:
Not known
Medium of performance:
Fully Staged Play
People involved:
(Dramatist)
Venues and occasions:
Production notes:
Philocles is said in the Suda to have been a contemporary of Euripides. We also know that he beat Sophocles (producing Oedipus Tyrannus) in the Dionysia c. 429 BC. His son Morsimus is referred to as an established tragedian by 424 BC, see Aristophanes' Knights (l.400f = TrGF1, 29 Morsimus T1); this suggests that Philocles himself was already of a certain age. The date range for performance is not certain, but is based on all of these considerations. We have no fragments of the Nauplius, but the entry in the Suda lists it as one of the tragedies that he produced.
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