Great Dionysia
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Dionysia · Theatre · new tragedies
in the texts
On the Crown
Festival/theatrical occasion at which Ctesiphon proposed the public proclamation of Demosthenes' crown.
In the archonship of Chaerondas, on the sixth day of Elaphebolion, Aeschines, son of Atrometus, of Cothocidae, indicted Ctesiphon, son of Leosthenes, of Anaphlystus, before the Archon for a breach of the constitution, in that he proposed an unconstitutional decree, to wit, that Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, of Paeania should be crowned with a golden crown, and that proclamation should be made i …
As for his proposing that a crown should be given to me, and the decoration proclaimed in the Theatre, without adding the words, provided he shall first have rendered his accounts, I conceive that that also is related to my public acts, whether I am, or am not, worthy of the crown and of the proclamation before the people;
On the Cavalry Commander
A festival cited as a model for public homage to the Twelve and other gods.
So at the Great Dionysia the dance of the choruses forms part of the homage offered to the Twelve and to other gods.