Homeric Performance Tradition at Panhellenic Festivals (8th–4th centuries BCE)

1. Earliest datable Homeric epic performances coalesce

   Jan 1, 750 BCELabels: Iliad, Odyssey, Oral tradition

   • Britannica
   • Cambridge

2. Festival performance culture attested in Homeric Hymn

   Jan 1, 700 BCELabels: Homeric Hymn, Apollo, Delos

   • Oxford
   • Wikipedia

3. Great Panathenaia reorganized under Peisistratid era

   Jan 1, 566 BCELabels: Great Panathenaia, Peisistratos, Athenian reform

   • Harvard
   • Parthenon

4. Panathenaic prize amphora tradition begins

   Jan 1, 560 BCELabels: Panathenaic amphora, Sacred olive, Attic pottery

   • Harvard
   • Met

5. Rhapsodic competitions become characteristic at Panathenaia

   Jan 1, 550 BCELabels: Rhapsodes, Panathenaia, Epic recitation

   • Britannica
   • Cambridge

6. Panathenaic relay-recitation rule later attributed to Hipparchos

   Jan 1, 530 BCELabels: Hipparchos, Panathenaic Rule, Relay recitation

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   • Smith

7. Panathenaic amphorae depict rhapsodes and festival performance

   Jan 1, 520 BCELabels: Attic vase, Rhapsode imagery, Vase painting

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   • Met

8. Parthenon frieze depicts the Panathenaic procession

   Jan 1, 438 BCELabels: Parthenon frieze, Panathenaic procession, Acropolis

   • UMich
   • Parthenon

9. Odeon of Pericles built for Panathenaic musical contests

   Jan 1, 435 BCELabels: Odeon of, Musical contests, Athens venue

   • Odeon
   • Theoi

10. Fourth-century Panathenaic prizes documented in inscriptions

    Jan 1, 400 BCELabels: Panathenaic inscriptions, Prize lists, Epigraphy

    • Theoi
    • Cambridge

11. Classical-era rhapsode performance described in Plato’s Ion

    Jan 1, 390 BCELabels: Plato's Ion, Rhapsode portrait, Classical literature

    • Britannica
    • Oxford

12. Lycurgus cites law mandating Homer at Panathenaia

    Jan 1, 330 BCELabels: Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, Civic law

    • CHS
    • Smith