| 1. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 6.158-6.162 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •zeus and the muses, festival of Found in books: Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 32 |
2. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 16.55.1, 17.16.3-17.16.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •zeus and the muses, festival of Found in books: Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 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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3. Dio Chrysostom, Orations, 2.2-2.3 (1st cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •zeus and the muses, festival of Found in books: Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 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, 2.3. that Philip in the course of their conversation put this question to Alexander: "Why, my son, have you become so infatuated with Homer that you devote yourself to him alone of all the poets? You really ought not to neglect the others, for the men are wise." And Alexander replied: "My reason, father, is that not all poetry, any more than every style of dress, is appropriate to a king, as it seems to me. |
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| 4. Anon., Scholia To Pindar, Nemean Odes, None Tagged with subjects: •zeus and the muses, festival of Found in books: Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 32 |
| 5. Anon., Scholia To Pindar, Olympian Odes, None Tagged with subjects: •zeus and the muses, festival of Found in books: Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 32 |
| 6. Anon., Suda, α1982 Tagged with subjects: •zeus and the muses, festival of Found in books: Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 32 |
| 7. Demosthenes, Orations, 19.192 Tagged with subjects: •zeus and the muses, festival of Found in books: Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 32 |
