Mystis (The Initiate)

Year: 
311 BC
Genres: 
Comedy
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved: 
(Dramatist)
(Comic Actor)
Venues and occasions: 
Production notes: 
Philippides’ play won first prize for comedy, the actor was Asclepiodorus. The other new comedies were a play by Nicostratus, Aminias’ Apoleipousa (The Runaway Wife), the Pankratiastes probably by Theophilus and a play called Paidion (The Baby) by an unknown author. A revival of Anaxandrides’ Thesauros was also performed. For the actor, see I.E. Stephanis, Dionysiakoi Technitai: Symboles stên prosôpographia tou theatrou kai tês mousikês tôn archaiôn Hellênôn (Heraklion: University of Crete, 1988), no. 458, and P. Ghiron-Bistagne, Recherches sur les acteurs dans la Grèce antique (Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1976), p. 40.

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