Hellenistic theatre cultures: performance and patronage outside Athens (323–30 BCE)

1. Delian choregoi commemorate sponsored performances

   Jan 1, 300 BCELabels: Delos, Choregos

   • Stoibadeion

2. Menander’s New Comedy shapes Hellenistic tastes

   Jan 1, 290 BCELabels: Menander, New Comedy

   • UCL Classics

3. Technitai of Dionysus gain recognized privileges

   Jan 1, 278 BCELabels: Technitai of, Delphi

   • SCS

4. Ptolemaic festival culture promotes spectacle and performance

   Jan 1, 275 BCELabels: Ptolemaic Egypt, Great Festival

   • Klio De Gruyter

5. Dionysiac artists organize in Ptolemaic Egypt

   Jan 1, 250 BCELabels: Ptolemais, Dionysiac Artists

   • OGIS 50

6. Delos completes major phases of its theatre

   Jan 1, 240 BCELabels: Delos Theatre, Delos

   • UNESCO

7. Teos grants land and tax relief to Dionysiac artists

   Jan 1, 229 BCELabels: Teos, Dionysiac Artists

   • SEG 2 580

8. Pergamon’s Hellenistic theatre reflects royal-city investment

   Jan 1, 200 BCELabels: Pergamon, Attalid dynasty

   • Pergamon

9. Roman conquest reshapes Greek civic life and patronage

   Jan 1, 146 BCELabels: Rome, Achaean League

   • Britannica

10. Delos’s theatre culture collapses amid war

    Jan 1, 88 BCELabels: Delos, First Mithridatic

    • UNESCO

11. Actium ends the last Hellenistic royal power centers

    Sep 2, 31 BCELabels: Actium, Octavian

    • Britannica

12. Delos begins major theatre construction

    Jan 1, 310Labels: Delos Theatre, Delos

    • UNESCO

13. Theatre patronage becomes a tool of new monarchies

    Jan 1, 320Labels: Hellenistic monarchies, theatre patronage

    • Met Museum

14. Alexander’s death opens the Hellenistic era

    Jun 10, 323Labels: Alexander the, Successor wars

    • Britannica