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Ancient Performance

Unknown (between 85 and 80 BC, Unknown venue, Oropus)

APGRD id
1068
Year
between 85 and 80 BC
People involved
APGRD Notes
Ariston won the competition for new Comedies held at the Amphiaraia in Oropos shortly after the end of the First Mithridatic War. Other victors in the same festival were Heraclides for Satyr play, Epinicus for old Tragedy, Iranus for old Comedy and Hermocrates for Tragedy. For Ariston, Poetae Comici Graeci ed. R. Kassel and C. Austin vol. II (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 1991), p. 570 (Ariston II). Straton acted, see Stephanis no. 2318.