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Ancient Performance

Cresphontes

APGRD id
712
Year
between 435 and 425 BC
Scripts
Genres
Tragedy
Medium of performance
Fully Staged Play
Languages
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved
APGRD Notes
We do not know when this play was first produced. It is parodied in Aristophanes' Georgoi and so must have been performed before the production of that comedy, between 424-2 BC. It may also have been quoted by Hermocrates at the Sicilian peace conference in 424 BC (TrGF5.1, p. 478-9, see also Collard, Cropp and Lee, Euripides Selected Fragmentary Plays I (Warminster, 1997), p. 125 and 144). The date range for performance given here is therefore up to a 10-year period before 425 BC (presuming Hermocrates would be quoted from a relatively recent play). It is assumed here that the performance wouold have taken place in Athens.