1. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •festivals with tragic performances (other than dionysia), olympia, at dion Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 152| 659b. ἐπεκαλέσατο μέλλων κρίνειν, ἐκ τούτου ψευδόμενον ἀποφαίνεσθαι ῥᾳθύμως τὴν κρίσιν· οὐ γὰρ μαθητὴς ἀλλὰ διδάσκαλος, ὥς γε τὸ δίκαιον, θεατῶν μᾶλλον ὁ κριτὴς καθίζει, καὶ ἐναντιωσόμενος τοῖς τὴν ἡδονὴν μὴ προσηκόντως μηδὲ ὀρθῶς ἀποδιδοῦσι θεαταῖς. ἐξῆν γὰρ δὴ τῷ παλαιῷ τε καὶ Ἑλληνικῷ νόμῳ, οὐ καθάπερ ὁ Σικελικός τε καὶ Ἰταλικὸς νόμος νῦν, τῷ πλήθει τῶν θεατῶν ἐπιτρέπων καὶ τὸν νικῶντα διακρίνων χειροτονίαις, διέφθαρκε μὲν τοὺς ποιητὰς αὐτούς | 659b. For, rightly speaking, the judge sits not as a pupil, but rather as a teacher of the spectators, being ready to oppose those who offer them pleasure in a way that is unseemly or wrong; and that is what the present law of Sicily and Italy actually does: by entrusting the decision to the spectators, who award the prize by show of hands, not only has it corrupted the poet |
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2. Lycophron, Alexandra, 72-85 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 92| 85. φέρβοντο φῶκαι λέκτρα θουρῶσαι βροτῶν. | |
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3. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 16.91, 17.16.3 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •festivals with tragic performances (other than dionysia), olympia, at dion Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 152 | 16.91. 1. When Pythodorus was archon at Athens, the Romans elected as consuls Quintus Publius and Tiberius Aemilius Mamercus, and the one hundred and eleventh celebration of the Olympic Games took place, in which Cleomantis of Cleitor won the foot-race.,2. In this year, King Philip, installed as leader by the Greeks, opened the war with Persia by sending into Asia as an advance party Attalus and Parmenion, assigning to them a part of his forces and ordering them to liberate the Greek cities, while he himself, wanting to enter upon the war with the god's approval, asked the Pythia whether he would conquer the king of the Persians. She gave him the following response: "Wreathed is the bull. All is done. There is also the one who will smite him." ,3. Now Philip found this response ambiguous but accepted it in a sense favourable to himself, namely that the oracle foretold that the Persian would be slaughtered like a sacrificial victim. Actually, however, it was not so, and it meant that Philip himself in the midst of a festival and holy sacrifices, like the bull, would be stabbed to death while decked with a garland.,4. In any event, he thought that the gods supported him and was very happy to think that Asia would be made captive under the hands of the Macedonians. Straightway he set in motion plans for gorgeous sacrifices to the gods joined with the wedding of his daughter Cleopatra, whose mother was Olympias; he had given her in marriage to Alexander king of Epirus, Olympias' own brother.,5. He wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests.,6. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad. He was determined to show himself to the Greeks as an amiable person and to respond to the honours conferred when he was appointed to the supreme command with appropriate entertainment. 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. |
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4. Plutarch, Alexander The Great, 72.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •festivals with tragic performances (other than dionysia), olympia, at dion Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 153| 72.1. ὡς δὲ ἧκεν εἰς Ἐκβάτανα τῆς Μηδίας καὶ διῴκησε τὰ κατεπείγοντα, πάλιν ἦν ἐν θεάτροις καὶ πανηγύρεσιν, ἅτε δὴ τρισχιλίων αὐτῷ τεχνιτῶν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἀφιγμένων. ἔτυχε δὲ περὶ τὰς ἡμέρας ἐκείνας Ἡφαιστίων πυρέσσων· οἷα δὲ νέος καὶ στρατιωτικὸς οὐ φέρων ἀκριβῆ δίαιταν, ἅμα τῷ τὸν ἰατρὸν Γλαῦκον ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὸ θέατρον περὶ ἄριστον γενόμενος καὶ καταφαγὼν ἀλεκτρυόνα ἑφθὸν καὶ ψυκτῆρα μέγαν ἐκπιὼν οἴνου κακῶς ἔσχε καὶ μικρὸν διαλιπὼν ἀπέθανε. | 72.1. When he came to Ecbatana in Media and had transacted the business that was urgent, he was once more much occupied with theatres and festivals, since three thousand artists had come to him from Greece. But during this time it chanced that Hephaestion had a fever; and since, young man and soldier that he was, he could not submit to a strict regimen, as soon as Glaucus, his physician, had gone off to the theatre, he sat down to breakfast, ate a boiled fowl, drank a huge cooler of wine, fell sick, and in a little while died. |
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5. Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, 3.1.4, 3.5.2, 7.14.10 (1st cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •festivals with tragic performances (other than dionysia), olympia, at dion Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 153| 3.1.4. ἐκεῖθεν δὲ διαβὰς τὸν πόρον ἧκεν ἐς Μέμφιν· καὶ θύει ἐκεῖ τοῖς τε ἄλλοις θεοῖς καὶ τῷ Ἄπιδι καὶ ἀγῶνα ἐποίησε γυμνικόν τε καὶ μουσικόν· ἧκον δὲ αὐτῷ οἱ ἀμφὶ ταῦτα τεχνῖται ἐκ τῆς Ἑλλάδος οἱ δοκιμώτατοι. ἐκ δὲ Μέμφιος κατέπλει κατὰ τὸν ποταμὸν ὡς ἐπὶ θάλασσαν τούς τε ὑπασπιστὰς ἐπὶ τῶν νεῶν λαβὼν καὶ τοὺς τοξότας καὶ τοὺς Ἀγριᾶνας καὶ τῶν ἱππέων τὴν βασιλικὴν ἴλην τὴν τῶν ἑταίρων. 3.5.2. ἐνταῦθα θύει τῷ Διῒ τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ πομπεύει ξὺν τῇ στρατιᾷ ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις καὶ ἀγῶνα ποιεῖ γυμνικὸν καὶ μουσικόν. καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἐνταῦθα ἐκόσμησε· δύο μὲν νομάρχας Αἰγύπτου κατέστησεν Αἰγυπτίους, Δολόασπιν καὶ Πέτισιν, καὶ τούτοις διένειμε τὴν χώραν τὴν Αἰγυπτίαν· Πετίσιος δὲ ἀπειπαμένου τὴν ἀρχὴν Δολόασπις ἐκδέχεται πᾶσαν. 7.14.10. οὔκουν οὐδὲ ἄλλον τινὰ ἔταξεν ἀντὶ Ἡφαιστίωνος χιλίαρχον ἐπὶ τῇ ἵππῳ τῇ ἑταιρικῇ Ἀλέξανδρος, ὡς μὴ ἀπόλοιτο τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Ἡφαιστίωνος ἐκ τῆς τάξεως, ἀλλὰ Ἡφαιστίωνός τε ἡ χιλιαρχία ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ τὸ σημεῖον αὐτῆς ἡγεῖτο τὸ ἐξ Ἡφαιστίωνος πεποιημένον. ἀγῶνά τε ἐπενόει ποιῆσαι γυμνικόν τε καὶ μουσικὸν πλήθει τε τῶν ἀγωνιζομένων καὶ τῇ εἰς αὐτὸν χορηγίᾳ πολύ τι τῶν ἄλλων τῶν πρόσθεν ἀριδηλότερον· τρισχιλίους γὰρ ἀγωνιστὰς τοὺς σύμπαντας παρεσκεύασε. καὶ οὗτοι ὀλίγον ὕστερον ἐπʼ Ἀλεξάνδρου τῷ τάφῳ λέγουσιν ὅτι ἠγωνίσαντο. | |
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6. Dio Chrysostom, Orations, 2.2 (1st cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •festivals with tragic performances (other than dionysia), olympia, at dion Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 152 | 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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| 7. Athenaeus, The Learned Banquet, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 153 |
| 8. Epigraphy, Imt, 1437.11-1437.12 Tagged with subjects: •festivals with tragic performances (other than dionysia), ptolemaia, at delos Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 174 |
| 10. Epigraphy, Ik, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 171 |
| 11. Epigraphy, Ig, 1, 11.4, 11.105.18, 11.105.16, 11.105.17, 11.108.18, 11.108.17, 11.108.19, 12.6, 12.9, 56, 207, 1043.14-16 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 162, 175 |
| 12. Epigraphy, Priene, 21.19, 23.14, 61.17, 532.70 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 174 |
| 13. Epigraphy, Miletos, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 174 |
| 14. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 540 Tagged with subjects: •festivals with tragic performances (other than dionysia), sarapieia, at tanagra Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 219 |
| 15. Epigraphy, Cid, 4, 87.32-3, 88.6-7 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 174 |
| 16. Epigraphy, Seg, 3, 19, 25, 34, 334, 335, 501, 758.49-50 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 174 |
| 17. Epigraphy, Ogis, 51 Tagged with subjects: •festivals with tragic performances (other than dionysia), agrionia, at thebes •festivals with tragic performances (other than dionysia), mouseia, at thespiae •festivals with tragic performances (other than dionysia), pythia, at delphi Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 165 |
