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The dramatic festivals of Athens
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The lesser festivals the great or city Dionysia the actors the costumes the chorus the audience the artists of Dionysus as mentioned in this paper, and the lesser festivals, the lesser or cityAbstract:
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Rethinking Athenian Democracy
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‘I Know You — By Your Rags’ Costume and Disguise in Fifth-century Drama
TL;DR: In the last section of the great central epeisodion, the god Dionysus, masquerading as a mortal, tries to persuade Pentheus that in order to spy on the maenads on Mt. Cithaeron, he must put on a woman's dress, or rather, allow himself to be dressed in female garb by the god himself as discussed by the authors.
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Menander's Theophoroumene between Greece and Rome
TL;DR: The authors identified and discussed a fragmentary fresco (Ufficio Scavi di Pompei 20545) which is of interest to scholars of both ancient drama and music, which reproduces an excerpt of the climactic scene of Menander's Theophoroumene, providing new and early evidence for the process of manipulation of the EarlyHellenistic archetype of this illustration.
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Who "Invented" Comedy? The Ancient Candidates for the Origins of Comedy and the Visual Evidence
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