10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHOREGIC»
Discover the use of
choregic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
choregic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Style: Classical Date: 334 B.C. E. Architect: Unknown The Street of the Tripods, a
very ancient route that connected the Theater of Dionysus to the Athenian Agora,
derives its name from the numerous fourth- and fifth-century choregic (also ...
2
Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr
While it is true that the choregic monuments, unlike grave yonder, the docks, the
porticoes and the rest, with which they beautified the city that they have
bequeathed to us. ... But today, men of Athens, while our public works are
confined to the ...
Anne Proctor Chapin, 2004
3
Simonides: A Historical Study
The main criterion for the status of the epigram is a comparison with other
choregic dedications; and Stella is surely right to accept only inscriptions as firm
evidence for the nature of these. Page, though agreeing with Stella in rejecting
the ...
4
Ancient Greece and Rome
Most famous, however, are those choregic dedications that so outstripped in
scale their function as tripod bases that they are usually considered in studies of
monumental Greek architecture alongside temples, stoas, and other public
structures ...
5
Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater
A fragmentary chous, produced a little earlier than the Agora reliefs, offers a very
similar scene and exemplifies the Athenian vasepainter's habit of copying or
adapting imagery from choregic monuments (other examples are discussed ...
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Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient ...
THE THEATER OF DIONYSOS AND CHOREGIC MONUMENTS The slopes of
the Acropolis are crowded with the remains of miscellaneous monuments and
shrines from many periods. The south slope is dominated by two theaters. The
best ...
7
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy
But at the very moment when the choregic monuments become truly extravagant,
they seem to disappear. The last of the series of surviving choregic dedications
are the two large (extravagant) monuments both dated to 320/19, i.e., that of ...
Michael Fontaine, Adele C. Scafuro, 2014
8
The Iconography of Sculptured Statue Bases in the Archaic ...
To this conclusion leads the inscription's distant similarity to choregic formulas
proper, more specifically the pairing of the word vtKlfoac with the name of the
event.152 Literary sources as well as extant inscribed tripod bases confirm that in
...
Angeliki Kosmopoulou, 2002
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The Unity of Plutarch's Work: 'Moralia' Themes in the ...
The role of successful choregic activity in boosting the profile of the wealthy in
ancient Athens has recently been stressed by Peter Wilson (Wilson, 109–262).
Plutarch cites with particular insight the choregic tripod-bases in his
reconstruction of ...
Anastasios Nikolaidis, 2008
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Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy
of relatively thin evidence.23 In addition to the testimonium for Demetrius'
likening of choregic tripods to cenotaphs of squandered estates, that evidence
includes a handful of inscriptions from the years immediately before and after his
rule.
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHOREGIC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
choregic is used in the context of the following news items.
How an ancient Greek monument is inspiring dramatists in Australia
It is the Choregic Monument of Lysicrates, copied in golden brown sandstone and honoured in Sydney far from its home in Athens. «Financial Times, Jan 15»
Pier Carlo Bontempi Named 2014 Driehaus Laureate
Recipients receive $200,000 and a bronze miniature of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates. Bontempi will be honored during a March 29 ... «ArchDaily, Dec 13»
Architect of Gore Hall, DuPont Hall addition honored
Recipients, who are chosen by a committee of leading architects and educators, receive a $100,000 prize and a model of the Choregic ... «University of Delaware, Sep 06»
