The Greek Theatre and Festivals : Documentary Studies

by: Wilson, P.

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.

Table of Contents
Introduction: From the ground up, Peter Wilson
I. Festivals and performers: some new perspectives
1: Deconstructing festivals, William Slater
2: Theatre rituals, Angelos Chaniotis
3: Artists' participation and the organization of music contests in the Hellenistic period: an attempt at classification, Sophia Aneziri
II. Festivals of Athens and Attica
4: The men who built the theatres: theatropolai, theatronai, and arkhitektones, Eric Csapo
5: Choregic monuments and the Athenian democracy, Hans Goette
6: Performance in the Pythion: the Athenian Thargelia, Peter Wilson
III. Beyond Athens
7: Dithyramb, Tragedy - and Cyrene, Paola Ceccarelli and Silvia Milanezi
8: A Horse from Teos: epigraphical notes on the Ionian-Hellespontine Association of Dionysiac Artists, John Ma
9: Kraton, son of Zotichos: artists' associations and monarchic power in the Hellenistic period, Brigitte Le Guen
10: Theoria and theatre at Samothrace: the Dardanos by Dumas of Iasos, Ian Rutherford
11: The Dionysia at Iasos: its artists, patrons, and audience, Charles Crowther
12: An opisthographic lead tablet from Sicily with a financial document and a curse concerning choregoi, David Jordan
13: Sicilian choruses, Peter Wilson

The Greek Theatre and Festivals : Documentary Studies

by: Wilson, P.

• ISBN-13: 9780199277476 / 978-0-19-927747-6
• ISBN-03: 0199277478 / 0-19-927747-8
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007