Mainomenos (The Madman)

Year: 
284 BC
Genres: 
Comedy
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved: 
(Comic Actor)
(Dramatist)
Venues and occasions: 
Production notes: 
An inscription from the Didascalic monument records that Diodorus came third with Mainomenos (The Madman), the actor was Cephisius. Simylus won first prize, with his Ephesia and Diodorus came second with the Nekros (Dead Man) ; Phoinikides 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. 1392.

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Mainomenos (The Madman), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/1000 <20 April 2024>