Philoctetes

Year: 
between 499 and 456 BC
Genres: 
Tragedy
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved: 
(Dramatist)
Venues and occasions: 
Production 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. Dio Chrysostom (Or. 52) compares this play with Sophocles' and Euripides'.

How to cite this ancient performance

Philoctetes, accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/579 <25 April 2024>