Dionysian festivals in Attica: The City Dionysia
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festival, Ancient drama, Ancient religion, Dionysus, City DionysiaAbstract
This paper delineates a panorama of the festive and cultic context in honor of Dionysus in Attica (around Athens) during the celebration of the City Dionysia (also called the Great Dionysia or simply Dionysia). Its aim is to analyze the main ancient sources to the study of this context and to evaluate its possible relations with the later development of dramatic genres at the end of the archaic period. Working directly with the main testimonies and fragments at the disposal of anyone who wants to elucidate the details of this important festival to classical Athens’ history, some reflections about its common mythopoetic Dionysian basis are suggested.
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