APGRD id
                      336
                Year
                      between 445 and 405 BC
                Medium of performance
                      Fully Staged Play
                People involved
          
      APGRD Notes
                      Philocles is said in the Suda to have been a contemporary of Euripides. We also know that he beat Sophocles (producing Oedipus Tyrannus) in the Dionysia c. 429 BC. His son Morsimus is referred to as an established tragedian by 424 BC, see Aristophanes' Knights (l.400f = TrGF1, 29 Morsimus T1); this suggests that Philocles himself was already of a certain age. The date range for performance is not certain, but is based on all of these considerations. We have no fragments of the Nauplius, but the entry in the Suda lists it as one of the tragedies that he produced.