Dionysia · Atlas

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the Dionysia1 mention

I began by fitting out a training-room in the most suitable part of my house, the same that I had used when Choregus at the Dionysia.

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Against MeidiasClassical · Greek

The Athenian festival of Dionysus during which Demosthenes served as chorus-master and Meidias allegedly committed public wrongs.

But first the clerk shall read you the law which provides for the lodging of plaints in the Assembly;

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next they shall lay before it the plaints lodged concerning the procession or the contests at the Dionysia, namely such as have not been satisfied.

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Now if it had been sufficient that those guilty at the Dionysia of any of these offences should be punished according to these laws, there would have been no need for this further law.

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Against CtesiphonClassical · Greek

Athenian festival and dramatic occasion connected to the theater-proclamation dispute and Demosthenes' assembly timing.

not when the Athenians are in assembly, but when tragedies are being performed;

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and that we should do this without waiting for your ambassadors to return, but immediately after the City Dionysia, on the 18th and 19th of the month.

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It frequently happened that at the performance of the tragedies in the city proclamations were made without authorization of the people, now that this or that man was crowned by his tribe, now that others were crowned by the men of their deme, while other men by the voice of the herald manumitted their household slaves, and made all Hellas their witness;

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On the ChoreutesClassical · Greek

Another Athenian festival at which the defendant had previously served as choregos, using the same training-room in his house.

I began by fitting out a training-room in the most suitable part of my house, the same that I had used when Choregus at the Dionysia.

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Against PhaenippusClassical · Greek

The festival at which choregic victories by Phaenippus' fathers were honored.

Yet my father left to each of us, my brother and myself, an estate of forty-five minae merely, on which it is not easy to live, while your fathers were possessed of such wealth that each of them set up a tripod in honor of choregic victories at the Dionysia.

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First PhilippicClassical · Greek

An Athenian festival used as evidence that Athens can organize punctual public action.

The explanation is that at the festivals everything is ordered by statute;

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And yet, men of Athens, how do you account for the fact that the Panathenaic festival and the Dionysia are always held at the right date, whether experts or laymen are chosen by lot to manage them, that larger sums are lavished upon them than upon any one of your expeditions, that they are celebrated with bigger crowds and greater splendor than anything else of the kind in the world, whereas your …

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PanathenaicusClassical · Greek

The Athenian dramatic festival invoked as a venue for hearing tragedy about Adrastus.

For who does not himself know or has not heard from the tragic poets at the Dionysia of the misfortunes which befell Adrastus at Thebes, how in his desire to restore to power the son of Oedipus, his own son-in-law, he lost a great number of his Argive soldiers in the battle and saw all of his captains slain, though saving his own life in dishonor, and, when he failed to obtain a truce and was unab …

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