Parthenopaeus

Year: 
between 424 and 404 BC
Scripts: 
Not known
Medium of performance: 
Fully Staged Play
People involved: 
(Dramatist)
Venues and occasions: 
Production notes: 
We are not sure of the dates that Spintharus was active as a tragedian. There is a reference to him in Aristophanes' Birds 762, produced in 414 BC. The date range given here is therefore arbitrary, giving a 10-year margin either side of 414 BC. No fragments remain of the Parthenopaeus, but Diongenes Laertius (5, 92) tells us that either Dionysius or Spintharus wrote a 'Parthenopaeus'.

How to cite this ancient performance

Parthenopaeus, accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ancient-performance/performance/358 <30 April 2024>