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Ancient Performance

Incendium (The Fire)

APGRD id
981
Year
59 AD
Genres
Comedy
Medium of performance
Fully Staged Play
Languages
Latin
People involved
APGRD Notes
According to Suetonius (Nero 11.2), Nero arranged a spectacular performance of Afranius’ play (written in the second century) in which the fire was real. See Comoedia Togata: Fragments, ed. A. Daviault (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1981), p. 52, and E. Champlin, Nero (Cambridge, MA), p.70.