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Ancient Performance

Proagon

APGRD id
976
Year
422 BC
Scripts
Genres
Comedy
Medium of performance
Fully Staged Play
Languages
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
People involved
APGRD Notes
The winning play was Philonides’ Proagon, Aristophanes’ Wasps came second. Leukon’s Presbeis came third. It has been suggested that this play was written by Aristophanes and produced in Philonides’ name to enable Aristophanes to present two plays at the same festival. For this play see Poetae Comici Graeci ed. R. Kassel and C. Austin vol. VII (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 1989), p. 366, and Poetae Comici Graeci ed. R. Kassel and C. Austin vol. III, 2 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 1984), p. 235.