The dramatic festivals of Athens
By: by the late Sir Arthur Pickard-Cambridge.
Contributors: Gould, John, 1927-; Lewis, David M.
Edition: 2nd ed. Revised by John Gould and D. M. Lewis.
Publisher: Oxford U.P.
Published: 1968
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Theater -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 500; Greek drama -- History and criticism; Athens (Greece) -- Intellectual life; Athens (Greece) -- Civilization
Notes: Bibliography: p. [324]-336.
Table of contents: title: The lesser festivals. The Anthesteria -- The Lenaia -- The rural Dionysia -- The Panathenaia -- The great or city Dionysia.  Origin of the festival -- General character -- The procession -- Calendar of events -- The Proagon -- The assembly after the festival -- Preliminary survey -- The inscriptions and Aristotle -- The ‘Fasti’ -- The Didaskaliai and the victors’ lists -- An inscription in Rome -- An inscription from the Agora -- Dithyrambic contests at the Dionysia -- Dithyrambic contests after 328 B.C. -- Choregos, poet, flute-player, chorus -- Tripods -- Periods in the history of dithyramb -- Number of plays offered by each poet -- Trilogies and tetralogies -- Tragedy after the fifth Century B.C. -- Comic contests at the Dionysia -- Conditions of competition and production of plays by poets -- The choregoi -- Appointments of choregoi and synchoregia -- Expenses of choregia and attitude of choregoi -- The training of choruses -- The agonothetes -- Selection and allocation of actors -- The protagonist, and the contests of actors -- Selection of judges : the contest of 468 B.C. -- Testimonia on selection of judges -- Inferences from these testimonia -- Influence of audience on judges -- The verdicts -- Revival of old plays -- Revision and reproduction of plays -- The actors. Terminology, etc. -- Number of actors and distribution op parts -- Delivery : speech, recitative, and song -- Voice and enunciation -- Gesture -- Tragedy and satyr play. Dress of the actors in satyr play -- The archaeological evidence -- The masks : Pollux’ catalogue; masks and resonance; and raised stage -- Dress : origins of tragic costume, later developments -- Footwear : the high-soled ‘buskin’ -- Costume of the chorus -- Comedy. Character of the evidence -- The archaeological evidence -- The evidence of the ‘phlyax vases’ -- The masks : old and middle comedy -- Dress of old comedy : the phallus, padding -- The masks : new comedy, Pollux’ catalogues -- Dress : new comedy -- The character, functions, and movements of the chorus. Importance and development of the chorus -- Number of choreutai -- Occasional second chorus -- Costume of the chorus -- Movements of the tragic chorus : the parodos -- Movements of the comic chorus -- Delivery by whole chorus, semichoruses, or single choreutai -- Dancing in drama. Greek views on dancing -- Use of hands in the dance -- History of dramatic dancing -- Dancing during stasima -- Music in drama. General character -- Modes : testimonia -- Mode and feeling -- Words and music -- Instrumental music -- The audience. Number in the audience -- Women and children in the audience -- Payment for admission : the theorikon -- Prohedria and reserved seats -- Theatre tickets -- Behaviour of the audience -- Attitudes and taste -- The artists of Dionysus. Early professionalism -- The ‘artists’ under Alexander and his successors; reasons for organization -- The euboean law : the first guilds -- The guilds and the soteria -- The guilds in Greece in the third century B.C. -- The guilds in Egypt and Cyprus -- The guilds in Greece in the second century B.C. Rome and quarrels between the guilds -- The guild of lonia and the Hellespont -- The ‘artists’ in the west -- The ‘artists’ in the first century B.C. -- The guilds under the roman empire, the world-wide guild -- Organization and character of the guilds of ‘artists’ -- Appendix : inscriptions relating to the ‘artists of Dionysus’.