| 1. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 6.158-6.162 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 32 |
2. Demosthenes, Orations, 19.192 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 32 | 19.192. To show you, then, that these men are the basest and most depraved of all Philip’s visitors, private as well as official,—yes, of all of them,—let me tell you a trifling story that has nothing to do with the embassy. After Philip had taken Olynthus, he was holding Olympian games, Not the great Olympian Games of Elis, but a Macedonian festival held at Dium. The date is probably the spring of 347 B.C. and had invited all sorts of artists to the religious celebration and the festival. |
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| 3. Cicero, Letters To His Friends, 7.23 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
| 4. Cicero, Orator, 110 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
| 5. Cicero, Brutus, 4.10.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
| 6. Cicero, De Oratore, 110 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
| 7. Cicero, Letters, 1.6, 1.9 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
| 8. Cicero, Letters To Quintus, 3.1.14 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
9. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 16.55.1, 17.16.3-17.16.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 32 | 16.55.1. After the capture of Olynthus, he celebrated the Olympian festival to the gods in commemoration of his victory, and offered magnificent sacrifices; and he organized a great festive assembly at which he held splendid competitions and thereafter invited many of the visiting strangers to his banquets. 17.16.3. He then proceeded to show them where their advantage lay and by appeals aroused their enthusiasm for the contests which lay ahead. He made lavish sacrifices to the gods at Dium in Macedonia and held the dramatic contests in honour of Zeus and the Muses which Archelaüs, one of his predecessors, had instituted. 17.16.4. He celebrated the festival for nine days, naming each day after one of the Muses. He erected a tent to hold a hundred couches and invited his Friends and officers, as well as the ambassadors from the cities, to the banquet. Employing great magnificence, he entertained great numbers in person besides distributing to his entire force sacrificial animals and all else suitable for the festive occasion, and put his army in a fine humour. |
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| 10. Juvenal, Satires, 2.4-2.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
11. Dio Chrysostom, Orations, 2.2-2.3 (1st cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 32 | 2.2. It is true that sometimes, because of their youth and enthusiasm, they spoil the sport by barking and starting the game too soon, but sometimes too they bring down the game themselves by bounding ahead. This, in fact, happened to Alexander at the very beginning, so that they say he brought about the battle and victory of Chaeronea when his father shrank from taking the risk. Now it was on this occasion, when they were at Dium in Pieria on their way home from the campaign and were sacrificing to the Muses and celebrating the Olympic festival, which is said to be an ancient institution in that country, < |
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12. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 64.9-64.10 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 | 64.9. Our predecessors have worked much improvement, but have not worked out the problem. They deserve respect, however, and should be worshipped with a divine ritual. Why should I not keep statues of great men to kindle my enthusiasm, and celebrate their birthdays? Why should I not continually greet them with respect and honour? The reverence which I owe to my own teachers I owe in like measure to those teachers of the human race, the source from which the beginnings of such great blessings have flowed. 64.9. Our predecessors have worked much improvement, but have not worked out the problem. They deserve respect, however, and should be worshipped with a divine ritual. Why should I not keep statues of great men to kindle my enthusiasm, and celebrate their birthdays? Why should I not continually greet them with respect and honour? The reverence which I owe to my own teachers I owe in like measure to those teachers of the human race, the source from which the beginnings of such great blessings have flowed. 64.10. If I meet a consul or a praetor, I shall pay him all the honour which his post of honour is wont to receive: I shall dismount, uncover, and yield the road. What, then? Shall I admit into my soul with less than the highest marks of respect Marcus Cato, the Elder and the Younger, Laelius the Wise, Socrates and Plato, Zeno and Cleanthes? I worship them in very truth, and always rise to do honour to such noble names. Farewell. |
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13. Suetonius, Tiberius, 70.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 | 70.2. He also composed a lyric poem, entitled "A Lament for the Death of Lucius Caesar," and made Greek verses in imitation of Euphorion, Rhianus, and Parthenius, poets of whom he was very fond, placing their busts in the public libraries among those of the eminent writers of old; and on that account many learned men vied with one another in issuing commentaries on their works and dedicating them to the emperor. |
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| 14. Suetonius, Augustus, 45 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 156, 158 |
15. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 35.9 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 | 35.9. But it was the Dictator Caesar who gave outstanding public importance to pictures by dedicating paintings of Ajax and Medea in front of the temple of Venus Genetrix; and after him Marcus Agrippa, a man who stood nearer to rustic simplicity than to refinements. At all events there is preserved a speech of Agrippa, lofty in tone and worthy of the greatest of the citizens, on the question of making all pictures and statues national property, a procedure which would have been preferable to banishing them to country houses. However, that same severe spirit paid the city of Cyzicus 1,200,000 sesterces for two pictures, an Ajax and an Aphrodite; he had also had small paintings let into the marble even in the warmest part of his hot baths; which were removed a short time ago when the Baths were being repaired. |
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16. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 59.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 156, 158 | 59.5. This was the kind of emperor into whose hands the Romans were then delivered. Hence the deeds of Tiberius, though they were felt to have been very harsh, were nevertheless as far superior to those of Gaius as the deeds of Augustus were to those of his successor., For Tiberius always kept the power in his own hands and used others as agents for carrying out his wishes; whereas Gaius was ruled by the charioteers and gladiators, and was the slave of the actors and others connected with the stage. Indeed, he always kept Apelles, the most famous of the tragedians of that day, with him even in public., Thus he by himself and they by themselves did without let or hindrance all that such persons would naturally dare to do when given power. Everything that pertained to their art he arranged and settled on the slightest pretext in the most lavish manner, and he compelled the praetors and the consuls to do the same, so that almost every day some performance of the kind was sure to be given., At first he was but a spectator and listener at these and would take sides for or against various performers like one of the crowd; and one time, when he was vexed with those of opposing tastes, he did not go to the spectacle. But as time went on, he came to imitate, and to contend in many events,, driving chariots, fighting as a gladiator, giving exhibitions of pantomimic dancing, and acting in tragedy. So much for his regular behaviour. And once he sent an urgent summons at night to the leading men of the senate, as if for some important deliberation, and then danced before them. < 59.5. 1. This was the kind of emperor into whose hands the Romans were then delivered. Hence the deeds of Tiberius, though they were felt to have been very harsh, were nevertheless as far superior to those of Gaius as the deeds of Augustus were to those of his successor.,2. For Tiberius always kept the power in his own hands and used others as agents for carrying out his wishes; whereas Gaius was ruled by the charioteers and gladiators, and was the slave of the actors and others connected with the stage. Indeed, he always kept Apelles, the most famous of the tragedians of that day, with him even in public.,3. Thus he by himself and they by themselves did without let or hindrance all that such persons would naturally dare to do when given power. Everything that pertained to their art he arranged and settled on the slightest pretext in the most lavish manner, and he compelled the praetors and the consuls to do the same, so that almost every day some performance of the kind was sure to be given.,4. At first he was but a spectator and listener at these and would take sides for or against various performers like one of the crowd; and one time, when he was vexed with those of opposing tastes, he did not go to the spectacle. But as time went on, he came to imitate, and to contend in many events,,5. driving chariots, fighting as a gladiator, giving exhibitions of pantomimic dancing, and acting in tragedy. So much for his regular behaviour. And once he sent an urgent summons at night to the leading men of the senate, as if for some important deliberation, and then danced before them. < |
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| 17. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 3.7, 4.28 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 158 |
| 18. Anon., Suda, α1982 Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 32 |
| 19. Anon., Scholia To Pindar, Olympian Odes, 6.158a Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 32 |
| 20. Anon., Scholia To Pindar, Nemean Odes, 1.7ab Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator) Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 32 |
| 21. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 4265, 4264 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 156 |
| 22. Epigraphy, Roesch, Ithesp, 358 Tagged with subjects: •demosthenes (politician and orator), portraits of Found in books: Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 156, 158 |
