APGRD id
                      940
                Year
                      between 54 and 65 AD
                Scripts
    
        
    Genres
          Tragedy
                          Languages
                      Latin
                People involved
          
      Venues
          
      APGRD Notes
                      Whether or not Seneca's tragedies were staged, or how they were performed, is highly controversial. Here it is assumed that some kind of performance of them took place in Rome. Quinitilian (8.3.31) may be taken as evidence that some of the plays were in circulation in the early 50s. Further evidence for the plays' circulation, and performance, by at least 79 AD, is offered by the graffito from Pompeii which quotes l. 730 of Seneca's Agamemnon (CIL 4.6698). On the basis of stylistic considerations, Fitch suggests that Phoenician Women was composed later than the Hercules, which is dated to shortly before 54 AD ; see J. Fitch, Seneca Tragedies Vol. I (Loeb, 2002), p. 12. The date range here therefore is set between the date of the Hercules and Seneca's death.