The Greek theatre and festivals : documentary studies / edited by Peter Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Peter, 1964-

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Oxford studies in ancient documents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Greece--History--To 500.

Theater.

Festivals.

History.

Greece.

Festivals--Greece--History--To 1500.

Physical Description:

xviii, 431 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [378]-411) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780199277476

0199277478

OCLC:

84150767