Phasma (The Ghost)

Year: 
between 262 and 254 BC
Genres: 
Comedy
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved: 
(Dramatist)
(Comic Actor)
Venues and occasions: 
Production notes: 
An inscription from the Athenian Agora records a revival of Menander’s play with which Dioscurides came second. First prize was won by the actor Callias with Diphilus’ Misanthropoi (the name of this latter play has been restored). The exact date of the performance, in the archonship of Alcibiades, is unclear. For actor see I.E. Stephanis, Dionysiakoi Technitai: Symboles stên prosôpographia tou theatrou kai tês mousikês tôn archaiôn Hellênôn (Heraklion: University of Crete, 1988), no. 773 and P. Ghiron-Bistagne, Recherches sur les acteurs dans la Grèce antique (Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1976), p.321.

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Phasma (The Ghost), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/991 <20 April 2024>