The Greek Theatre and Festivals

Peter Wilson is William Ritchie Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney.

• Introduction: From the ground up ; I. FESTIVALS AND PERFORMERS: SOME NEW PERSPECTIVES ; 1. Deconstructing festivals ; 2. Theatre rituals ; 3. Artists' participation and the organization of music contests in the Hellenistic period: an attempt at classification ; II. FESTIVALS OF ATHENS AND ATTICA ; 4. The men who built the theatres: theatropolai, theatronai, and arkhitektones ; 5. Choregic monuments and the Athenian democracy ; 6. Performance in the Pythion: the Athenian Thargelia ; III. BEYOND ATHENS ; 7. Dithyramb, Tragedy - and Cyrene ; 8. A Horse from Teos: epigraphical notes on the Ionian-Hellespontine Association of Dionysiac Artists ; 9. Kraton, son of Zotichos: artists' associations and monarchic power in the Hellenistic period ; 10. Theoria and theatre at Samothrace: the Dardanos by Dumas of Iasos ; 11. The Dionysia at Iasos: its artists, patrons, and audience ; 12. An opisthographic lead tablet from Sicily with a financial document and a curse concerning choregoi ; 13. Sicilian choruses

This collection, edited by Peter Wilson and developed from an Oxford colloquium held in 2003, takes a fresh look at the documentary evidence for the Greek theatre... Wilson and his contributors succeed in offering this detailed, thoughtful, and illuminating book, which should be essential reading for anyone seriously interested in studying the Greek theatre.