Meleager

Year: 
between 406 and 367 BC
Scripts: 
Not known
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
People involved: 
(Dramatist)
Venues and occasions: 
Production notes: 
The date of production is not known, though it is mentioned in Aristotle's Rhetoric (2,2= 1379b 13) and so must have been produced before the composition of this work. Antiphon (not the famous orator, though anecdotes relating to the tragedian are attached to the orator in the bibliographical tradition) seems to have worked at the court of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse; the performance venue is based on this assumption. There is also a tradition that he was put to death by Dionysius; see evidence at TrGF1, 55 Antiphon, p. 193-4. The date range for productions of his tragedies is therefore based on the rule of Dionysius. No fragments of the play survive though we know from the reference in Aristotle that it included the characters Meleager and Plexippus.

How to cite this ancient performance

Meleager, accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/372 <14 May 2024>