Alcmaeon in Psophis | |
Chorus: | Young women |
Characters: | Alcmaeon Others? |
Premiere: | 438 BC |
Place: | Athens |
Orig Lang: | Ancient Greek |
Genre: | Tragedy |
Setting: | Psophis |
Alcmaeon in Psophis (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀλκμαίων ὁ διὰ Ψωφῖδος, Alkmaiōn ho dia Psophidos) is a play by Athenian playwright Euripides. The play has been lost except for a few surviving fragments. It was first produced in 438 BCE in a tetralogy that also included the extant Alcestis and the lost Cretan Women and Telephus. The story is believed to have incorporated the death of Argive hero Alcmaeon.[1]