A collection of essays, by leading international scholars, on the history of the Greek theatre, and on the wider context of festival culture in which theatrical activity took place in the Greek world. The emphasis is on the documentary material - inscriptions, archaeological remains and monuments - which provides so much of our 'hard' evidence for the activities of the theatre. Much of the important material discussed here is unknown except to specialists, and these studies offer access to its interpretation to a wider audience. They cover a wide range of time and place, from the earliest days of the Greek theatre to the Roman period, with special emphasis on the neglected Hellenistic period, which is especially rich in documentary evidence.
Author(s): Peter Wilson
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 400
Contents......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 10
List of illustrations......Page 11
List of abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction: From the Ground Up......Page 20
PART I. FESTIVALS AND PERFORMERS: SOME NEW PERSPECTIVES......Page 38
1. Deconstructing Festivals......Page 40
2. Theatre Rituals......Page 67
3. The Organisation of Music Contests in the Hellenistic Period and Artists’ Participation: An Attempt at Classification......Page 86
PART II. FESTIVALS OF ATHENS AND ATTICA......Page 104
4. The Men Who Built the Theatres: Theatropolai, Theatronai, and Arkhitektones......Page 106
5. Choregic Monuments and the Athenian Democracy......Page 141
6. Performance in the Pythion: The Athenian Thargelia......Page 169
PART III. BEYOND ATHENS......Page 202
7. Dithyramb, Tragedy – and Cyrene......Page 204
8. A Horse from Teos: Epigraphical Notes on the Ionian-Hellespontine Association of Dionysiac Artists......Page 234
9. Kraton, Son of Zotichos: Artists’ Associations and Monarchic Power in the Hellenistic Period......Page 265
10. Theoria and Theatre at Samothrace: The Dardanos by Dymas of Iasos......Page 298
11. The Dionysia at Iasos: Its Artists, Patrons, and Audience......Page 313
12. An Opisthographic Lead Tablet from Sicily with a Financial Document and a Curse Concerning Choregoi......Page 354
13. Sicilian Choruses......Page 370
Bibliography......Page 397
C......Page 432
E......Page 433
K......Page 434
S......Page 435
T......Page 436
Z......Page 437
B......Page 438
H......Page 439
P......Page 440
S......Page 441
X......Page 442
Epigraphical Index......Page 443
