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Choregia, competitions, and the role of the choregos in Classical Athens (5th–4th century BCE)

Choregia, competitions, and the role of the choregos in Classical Athens (5th–4th century BCE)

  1. Choregia develops as an Athenian public liturgy

    Labels: Choregia, Athenian liturgy, Wealthy citizens

  3. Lenaia expands drama and comedy with choregic support

    Labels: Lenaia, Comedy festival, Choregoi

  4. Archon assigns choregoi to competing tragedians

    Labels: Eponymous archon, Tragedians, Choregoi assignment

  5. Tribal choregia supports dithyramb and other choruses

    Labels: Tribal choregia, Dithyramb, Tribes

  6. Choregos finances training, costumes, and chorus upkeep

    Labels: Choregos, Chorus upkeep, Production costs

  7. Choregic victories commemorated with tripods and monuments

    Labels: Choragic monuments, Bronze tripod, Public dedications

  8. Law of Leptines targets exemptions from festival liturgies

    Labels: Law of, Demosthenes, Festival liturgies

  9. Antidosis procedure pressures elites to accept choregia

    Labels: Antidosis, Liturgical enforcement, Elite obligations

  10. Monument of Lysicrates marks a dithyramb victory

    Labels: Lysicrates monument, Dithyramb victory, Street of

  11. Late 4th-century choregic monuments signal elite display

    Labels: Thrasyllos monument, Nikias monument, Elite display

  12. Liturgical choregia disappears under Demetrius of Phalerum

    Labels: Demetrius of, Liturgical reform, Choregia decline

  13. Agonothetes system replaces choregoi for major festivals

    Labels: Agonothetes, Demos, Festival administration