#i am once again asking if we have any evidence for 4th century reperformances of oedipus at colonus........
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by far my favorite piece of evidence for the number of actors usually necessary to perform tragedy is that if it was common to have more than three actors, demosthenes would have definitely insulted aeschines by calling him a tetragonist or pentagonist or something instead of just a tritagonist
#this is evidence only for the theatrical scene of the mid-4th century at the earliest though#i am once again asking if we have any evidence for 4th century reperformances of oedipus at colonus........#mine
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