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Έρεχθεύς (Erechtheus)
(‘Erechtheus’)

Discussion Kock 1884 11.140; Edmonds 1959 11.50—1; Kassel-Austin 1991
11.244; Sanchis Llopis et al. 2007. 245
Title Although there are no other comedies of this name, Euripides wrote an
Erechtheus, as did Ennius, possibly using Euripides’ play as a model. Euripides’
version was concerned with Erechtheus’ sacrifice of his daughter when
Eumolpus and the Thracians invaded Athens. The extensive fragments of that
play are frr. 349-70; cf. Collard et al. 1995. 148-94, and for the iconography of
the myth, Connelly 1996. 67-80; in general, LIMCIV. 1.923-8.
Content of the comedy: It is difficult to imagine a comic treatment of
this part of the myth, but an extended parody of Euripides’ play is possible
(cf. Nesselrath 1993. 191).
Date According to test. 5.4, Erechtheus (otherwise unknown) took third place
at the City Dionysia in the archonship of Lysistratos (368 BC).