Anthos (Antheus)

Year: 
between 416 and 406 BC
Scripts: 
Not known
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
People involved: 
(Dramatist)
Venues and occasions: 
Production notes: 
It is not known when this play was produced. Agathon's first competed, in the Lenaea, in 416 BC and he had left Athens to go to the court of Archelaus in Macedon, by 405 BC (i.e. the year of the production of Aristophanes' Frogs). The date range for the performance of this play is based on these considerations. Some have questioned whether the play could have been called 'Anthos' (flower) and prefer the title 'Antheus' (taking this to be the name of the hero). No fragments from this play survive, but Aristotle discusses it in his Poetics; see Aristotle Poetics, 9, 1451 b 19.

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Anthos (Antheus), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/353 <24 April 2024>