Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-336).
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Part 1: The lesser festivals: The Anthesteria -- The Lenaia -- The rural Dionysia -- The Panathenaia -- Part 2: The great or city Dionysia -- Part 3: The Actors -- Terminology, etc. -- Number of actors and distribution of parts -- Delivery: speech, recitative, and song -- Voice and enunciation -- Gesture -- Part 4: The costumes : Introduction (general character of the evidence) -- Tragedy and satyr play -- Comedy -- Part 5: The chorus -- The character, functions, and movements pof the chorus -- Dancing in drama -- Music in drama -- Part 6: The audience -- Part 7: The artists of Dionysus -- Appendix: Inscriptions relating to the 'Artists of Dionysus' -- Additional note: Michael Psellos on the music of tragedy.
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This reissue with a new supplement is fully expanded and brought up-to-date. It discusses the organization of the dramatic festivals, describes the acting style, actors, costumes, dancing, music, and audiences' tastes and behavior, and provides a full presentation of the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence on which any discussion of the dramatic festivals is based, such as the difficulties of interpretation.
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Title
Dramatic festivals of Athens.
Title
Dramatic festivals of Athens.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Festivals-- Greece-- Athens.
Greek drama-- History and criticism.
Theater-- Greece-- Athens-- History-- To 500.
Théâtre grec-- Histoire et critique.
Théâtre-- Grèce-- Athènes-- Histoire.
Antiquities.
Civilization.
Festivals.
Greek drama.
Intellectual life.
Manners and customs.
Theater.
Theaterfestivals.
Théâtre grec-- Antiquité.
Tragédie grecque-- Antiquité.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Athens (Greece), Civilization.
Athens (Greece), Intellectual life.
Greece, Antiquities.
Greece, Social life and customs.
Athènes (Grèce), Civilisation.
Athènes (Grèce), Vie intellectuelle, Antiquité.