APGRD id
349
Year
between 416 and 406 BC
Medium of performance
Fully Staged Play
People involved
Known from
APGRD Notes
It is not known when this play was produced. Agathon's first competed, in the Lenaea, in 416 BC and he had left Athens to go to the court of Archelaus in Macedon, by 405 BC (i.e. the year of the production of Aristophanes' Frogs). The date range for the performance of this play is based on these considerations. No fragments from this play survive, but Plutarch tell us that it was in this tragedy that Agathon first introduced the chromatic scale (Plutarch, Quaest. Conv. 3,1,1 = 645E).