Orestes

Year: 
408 BC
Genres: 
Tragedy
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved: 
(Tragic Actor)
(Dramatist)
Venues and occasions: 
Production notes: 
This may have been Euripides' last time competing in the Dionysia. During this performance, the tragic actor Hegelochus fluffed the delivery a line to comic effect (by mispronouncing 'galen' he said 'weasel' instead of 'calm') - see scholion on line 279.

How to cite this ancient performance

Orestes, accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/204 <25 April 2024>