The Poet

Year: 
167 BC
Genres: 
Comedy
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
Languages: 
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved: 
(Dramatist)
(Comic Actor)
Venues and occasions: 
Production notes: 
Biottus’ play came third after an unknown play by Paramonus and Criton’s Aitolos. A revival of Menander’s Phasma was performed at the same festival. The actor Damon was in Biottus’ play and in the winning play by Paramonus; see I.E. Stephanis, Dionysiakoi Technitai: Symboles stên prosôpographia tou theatrou kai tês mousikês tôn archaiôn Hellênôn (Heraklion: University of Crete, 1988), no. 582, and Ghiron-Bistagne, Recherches sur les acteurs dans la Grèce antique (Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 1976), p. 45.

How to cite this ancient performance

The Poet, accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/996 <20 April 2024>