Reception and adaptation of Greek tragedy in the Roman East (3rd century BCE–5th century CE)

1. Dionysiac performers form regional guilds

   Jan 1, 279 BCELabels: Technitai of, Professional actors, Traveling guilds

   • SCS Technitai
   • Artists Dionysus

2. Magnesia invites Technitai to new festival

   Jan 1, 230 BCELabels: Magnesia on, Technitai, Civic festival

   • CSAD IMag 89
   • Artists Dionysus

3. Alexandrian scholarship edits Euripides for reuse

   Jan 1, 195 BCELabels: Alexandrian scholarship, Aristophanes of, Euripides texts

   • Britannica
   • Cambridge Tragedy

4. Hadrian-era rebuilding completes Teos’ Dionysus temple

   Jan 1, 125Labels: Teos, Temple of, Hadrianic rebuilding

   • Teos Temple
   • Artists Dionysus

5. Hadrian founds Panhellenion to promote Greek culture

   Jan 1, 131Labels: Panhellenion, Hadrian, Athens

   • Panhellenion
   • Temple Zeus

6. Hadrian completes Athens’ Olympian Zeus precinct

   Jan 1, 132Labels: Temple of, Hadrian, Athens precinct

   • Temple Zeus
   • Panhellenion

7. Euripidean plot reworked as the Charition farce

   Jan 1, 150Labels: Charition mime, Euripides adaptation, Oxyrhynchus

   • Charition
   • Cambridge Tragedy

8. Ecumenical Dionysiac artists flourish in imperial festival circuit

   Jan 1, 150Labels: Ecumenical artists, Dionysiac association, Imperial festivals

   • SCS Technitai
   • Artists Dionysus

9. Herodes Atticus builds a major odeon in Athens

   Jan 1, 161Labels: Herodes Atticus, Odeon of, Athens

   • Herodes Odeon
   • Structurae

10. Greek tragedy circulates in Egyptian papyrus culture

    Jan 1, 200Labels: Papyrus Oxyrhynchus, Euripides Phoenissae, Egyptian papyri

    • P Oxy 224
    • Cambridge Tragedy

11. Philostratus depicts tragedy and pantomime as cultural reference points

    Jan 1, 220Labels: Philostratus, Life of, Pantomime

    • Pallas 2015
    • Livius VA

12. Herulian sack damages Athens’ performance infrastructure

    Jan 1, 267Labels: Heruli sack, Athens destruction, Odeon damage

    • Sack Athens
    • Herodes Odeon

13. Dionysiac artist organizations fade from the record

    Jan 1, 300Labels: Dionysiac organizations, Epigraphic record, Late antique

    • Artists Dionysus
    • SCS Technitai

14. Closure of Athenian philosophical teaching signals late antique shift

    Jan 1, 529Labels: Justinian closure, Athenian philosophy, Late antiquity

    • JRS Watts