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Ancient Performance

Story of Cinyras

APGRD id
984
Year
41 AD
Medium of performance
Pantomime
People involved
APGRD Notes
Suetonius (Caligula 57.4) claims that on the eve of Caligula’s assassination the pantomime, Mnester, ‘danced the same tragedy’ that was performed by Neoptolemos before the death of Philip. Josephus identifies the story as that of Cinyras but does not name the dancer. See M.-H. Garelli, Danser le mythe : La pantomime et sa réception dans la culture antique (Louvain and Paris : Peeters, 2007), p. 272