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Choregic dedications and what they tell us about comic performance in the Fourth Century BC
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Csapo, Eric (2016) Choregic dedications and what they tell us about comic performance in the Fourth Century BC. ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ / LOGEION, 6 . ISSN 2241-2417.
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Abstract
Two fragmentary reliefs from the Athenian Agora, first published by Webster, constitute our primary evidence for the appearance of the ancient comic chorus. I will reconstruct the monuments from which these fragments were taken and discuss the relationship of the images to choral practice in the Athenian Theatre of Dionysus. I will also adress the question of the unique nature of these two mid-fourth-century reliefs depicting comic choruses and argue that the reliefs belong to a new form of monument placed, like the tripod monuments for men’s and boys’ lyric choruses, on the Street of the Tripods. The new form is the result of a structural change in the sponsorship of comedy by which the choregoi w
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ / LOGEION | ||||||
| Publisher: | Crete University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2241-2417 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 6 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
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