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491: 432: 438: 139:, Chapter 17 (1455a lines 22 to 29), Aristotle discusses the necessity for a playwright to see the composition on the stage, rather than just in print, in order to weed out any inconsistencies. Aristotle points to an unnamed play of Carcinus which had a character, Amphiaraus, exit a temple. For some reason this seemed outrageously inconsistent when viewed on the stage, and the audience "hissed" the actors right off the stage. 528: 547: 475: 521: 403: 572: 514: 562: 82:
was in the 100th Olympiad (380–377 BC); and his first victory at the Dionysia can be dated to before 372.
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published a fragment of a musical papyrus written by Carcinus that contains parts of his
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Green, J. R. (1990). "Carcinus and the Temple: a Lesson in the Staging of Tragedy".
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This article is about the Greek tragedian. For the crab genus of the same name, see
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records that he wrote one hundred and sixty plays. He won eleven victories at the
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Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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and grandson of Carcinus. Another Xenocles, mentioned by a scholiast on
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was a patron of Carcinus. Nine or ten titles of his plays are known:
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Rothwell, Kenneth (1994). "Was Carcinus I a Tragic Playwright?".
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Webster, T. L. (1954). "Fourth Century Tragedy and the Poetics".
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Sutton, Dana Ferrin (1987). "The Theatrical Families of Athens".
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This article about an Ancient Greek writer or poet is a
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Carcinus
Greek
Ancient Greek
tragedian
Thoricus
Xenocles
Aristophanes
Frogs
Suda
Dionysia
floruit
Dionysius II of Syracuse
Aristotle
Poetics
Annie Bélis
Louvre
Aristotle
Medea
Jason
doi
10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e609190
doi
10.2307/294911
JSTOR
294911


doi
10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.1365
"An Ancient Theatre Dynasty: The Elder Carcinus, the Young Xenocles and the Sons of Carcinus in Aristophanes"

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