APGRD id
46
Year
between 330 and 323 BC
Medium of performance
Sung Recital
People involved
Known from
APGRD Notes
The evidence for this sung performance of some of Sophocles' tragedies is late and anecdotal. Plutarch says that when Alexander was civilising Asia, the children of the Persians, of the Susians, and of the Gedrosians learned to chant the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides. The start date for these possible performances is given from the time when Alexander had full control in Asia (after Darius had fled and had been murdered) and the end date is the death of Alexander (after which this policy, if it were ever implemented in the first place, presumably was not necessarily continued).