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Dio Chrysostom, Orations, 19.5


nan And the most of what they give us comes from ancient times, and from much wiser men than those of the present. In the case of comedy everything is kept; in the case of tragedy only the strong parts, it would seem, remain — I mean the iambics, and portions of these they still give in our theatres — but the more delicate parts have fallen away, that is, the lyric parts. I might illustrate by the case of old men: all the firm parts of the body resist the ravages of time, namely, the bones and the muscles; but everything else shrivels up. This is the reason that the bodies of the extremely old men are seen to be wasted and shrunken, whereas all those old men who are corpulent because of their wealth and luxury, although they have no strength left but only fat instead of flesh, do seem well nourished and younger to the great majority.


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1. Euripides, Orestes, 256-257, 255 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

255. Mother, I implore you! Do not shake at me those maidens with their bloodshot eyes and snaky hair. Here they are, close by, to leap on me! Electra
2. Longinus, On The Sublime, 15.2-15.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

3. Plutarch, Cimon, 8.7-8.8 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

4. Plutarch, Demetrius, 12 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

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accent, tonal Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211
actors/acting, tragoidos Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 301
aeschylus, and performances outside athens Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 343
aphrodisias Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 302
aristotle, and athenian dramatic festivals Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 343
characters, tragic/mythical, furies (erinyes) Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 315, 343
characters, tragic/mythical, orestes Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 315
chorostatas (kho-), in postclassical tragic plays/performances Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 302, 315
choruses, roman era Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211
cicero, on recognizing a song from first notes of the piper (lucullus) Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211
comedy, stage music Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211
costume, tragedy Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 343
demetrius the besieger (poliorketes) Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 343
dio chrysostom, on tragic/comic solo song Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211
dionysia festivals, great or city d. Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 343
dionysius of halicarnassus, on euripides choral songs Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211
euripides, and the second sophistic, tragedy and phantasia Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 315
euripides, performance of Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211
euripides, phaethon Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 315
justinian, emperor Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 301
longinus, on the sublime Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 315
longinus Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 315
lucian Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 302
masks Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 301
mesomedes (citharode) Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211
mime Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 301
notation, music Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211
pantomime Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 301, 302
playwrights, comedy (greek), aristophanes Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 343
plutarch Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 343
roman era, tragic/comic solo song Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211
scholars/scholarship, ancient and byzantine (on tragedy), dio chrysostom Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 302, 315, 343
scholars/scholarship, ancient and byzantine (on tragedy), pollux, julius (polydeuces) Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 343
scholars/scholarship, ancient and byzantine (on tragedy) Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 343
sophocles, and pantomime Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 302
stage music/theater songs, roman Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211
theater, roman' Cosgrove, Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine (2022) 211