The Greek theatre and festivals : documentary studies / edited by Peter Wilson. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xviii, 431 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. - Oxford studies in ancient documents. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [378]-411) and index.

Deconstructing festivals / William Slater -- Theatre rituals / Angelos Chaniotis -- The organisation of music contests in the Hellenistic period and artists' participation : an attempt at classification / Sophia Aneziri -- The men who built the theatres : theatropolai, theatronai, and arkhitektones / Eric Csapo ; with an archaeological appendix by Hans Rupprecht Goette -- Choregic monuments and the Athenian democracy / Hans Rupprecht Goette -- Performance in the Pythion : the Athenian Thargelia / Peter Wilson -- Dithyramb, tragedy, and Cyrene / Paola Ceccarelli and Silvia Milanezi -- A horse from Teos : epigraphical notes on the Ionian-Hellespontine Association of Dionysiac Artists / John Ma -- Kraton, son of Zotichos : artists' associations and monarchic power in the Hellenistic period / Brigitte Le Guen -- Theoria and theatre at Samothrace : the Dardanos by Dymas of Iasos / Ian Rutherford -- The Dionysia at Iasos : its artists, patrons, and audience / Charles Crowther -- An opisthographic lead tablet from Sicily with a financial document and a curse concerning choregoi / David Jordan -- Sicilian choruses / Peter Wilson.

9780199277476 (alk. paper)

2007011345


Theater--History--Greece--To 500.
Festivals--History--Greece--To 1500.

PA3201 / .G72 2007

792.0938