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Ancient Performance

Nurses of Dionysus

APGRD id
532
Year
between 499 and 456 BC
Genres
  • Satyr play
  • Satyr play
Medium of performance
Fully Staged Play
Languages
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved
APGRD Notes
It is not known when this play was produced. The date range for performance given here is between the year of his first competition (acc. to Suda) and his death (Marm. Par.). It is assumed that this play would have been produced in Athens. It has the alternative title of Nurses (Trophoi) and apparently included the rejuvenation of the Nurses by Medea. It may have been the satyr drama at the end of a Dionysiac tetralogy; the other plays could have been: Wool-carders, Semele and Pentheus.