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Demosthenes, Orations, 20.21


nanPut it thus. Of aliens there are exempt—I will assume ten. And by Heaven, as I said before, I do not believe there are five. Moreover of the citizens there are not half a dozen. Sixteen of both, then. Let us call it twenty, or thirty, if you like. How many, pray, are there that annually perform the regularly recurring services—chorus-masters, presidents of gymnasia, and public hosts? Perhaps sixty in all, or a trifle more.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

11 results
1. Isocrates, Orations, 15 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

2. Aeschines, Letters, 1.81, 2.13, 3.172, 3.182, 3.228 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3. Hyperides, Fragments, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4. Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 76, 140 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

5. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.21.1-1.21.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

1.21.1. In the theater the Athenians have portrait statues of poets, both tragic and comic, but they are mostly of undistinguished persons. With the exception of Meder no poet of comedy represented here won a reputation, but tragedy has two illustrious representatives, Euripides and Sophocles. There is a legend that after the death of Sophocles the Lacedaemonians invaded Attica, and their commander saw in a vision Dionysus, who bade him honor, with all the customary honors of the dead, the new Siren. He interpreted the dream as referring to Sophocles and his poetry, and down to the present day men are wont to liken to a Siren whatever is charming in both poetry and prose. 1.21.2. The likeness of Aeschylus is, I think, much later than his death and than the painting which depicts the action at Marathon Aeschylus himself said that when a youth he slept while watching grapes in a field, and that Dionysus appeared and bade him write tragedy. When day came, in obedience to the vision, he made an attempt and hereafter found composing quite easy.
6. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 2.43 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

2.43. So he was taken from among men; and not long afterwards the Athenians felt such remorse that they shut up the training grounds and gymnasia. They banished the other accusers but put Meletus to death; they honoured Socrates with a bronze statue, the work of Lysippus, which they placed in the hall of processions. And no sooner did Anytus visit Heraclea than the people of that town expelled him on that very day. Not only in the case of Socrates but in very many others the Athenians repented in this way. For they fined Homer (so says Heraclides ) 50 drachmae for a madman, and said Tyrtaeus was beside himself, and they honoured Astydamas before Aeschylus and his brother poets with a bronze statue.
7. Demosthenes, Orations, 4.49, 6.31, 9.54, 13.21, 18.208, 18.261, 18.294, 19.129-19.130, 19.171, 19.285, 20.18, 21.13, 21.58, 21.109, 21.139, 21.198, 21.207, 29.57, 50.13, 52.9, 52.14

8. Epigraphy, Ig I , None

9. Epigraphy, Ig I , None

10. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 2318, 1140

11. Lysias, Orations, 21.3, 21.19



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
acamantis Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
aeschylus Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
agathon Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
allotment machines Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 748
antidosis Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 748
apollodorus (son of pasion) Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349
astydamas Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
ateleia Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
athens,its resources in the fourth century bc Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
banquets Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
cecropis Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
choregos,tribe Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 748
chorêgiai,chorêgoi Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
crowns Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
demetrius of phaleron Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
dexileos Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 748
dionysia Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
dithyramb Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 748
dôreai Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
elite,display by Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
elite,its contributions to the polis in the archaic period Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
epithets,significance of divine Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349
eubulus Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
euripides Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
festivals Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79, 173, 229
gymnasiarch Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 748
gymnasiarchiai Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
hephaestea Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
hero Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 748
hestiasis Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
honors,controversy surrounding Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
hyperides Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
imaginary objections in oratory Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349
lampadêphoroi Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
laos Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
leptines Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
liturgies,exemption from Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
liturgies,in the archaic period Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
liturgies,obligatory Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
liturgies,origins of Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
liturgies,prizes in Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
liturgies,voluntary Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
liturgies,word Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
liturgies Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
marathon,battle of Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
multiple sanctifying features' Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349
old comedy Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349
panathenaea Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
philinus,orator Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
phylai Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
pompeium Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
prizes Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
promethea Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
public praise Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
rich,the Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 79
socrates Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
sophocles Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
statues,of aeschylus Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
statues,of astydamas Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
statues,of euripides Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
statues,of socrates Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
statues,of sophocles Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
stoa poikile Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
thargelia Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 748
theater of dionysus Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
theôrikon Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 229
tribes,kleisthenic Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 748
tribes,liturgies Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 748
xenia (ritualized friendship),xenocles,gymnasiarch in Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 173
zeus,oaths invoking,frequency Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349