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    were awarded jointly to the playwright and the choregos. Such victories carried prestige for the choregos. Several notable political figures served as choregoi...
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    Choregos and theater actors, from the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii, Italy. Naples National Archeological Museum....
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    staged the production that included the Persians, with Pericles serving as choregos. Aeschylus married and had two sons, Euphorion and Euaeon, both of whom...
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    Monument of Lysicrates near the Acropolis of Athens was erected by the choregos Lysicrates, a wealthy patron of musical performances in the Theater of...
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    in Athens' City Dionysia festival in 472 BC, with Pericles serving as choregos. The first play in the trilogy, called Phineus, presumably dealt with Jason...
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  • descriptions of the projected plays. Each playwright would be assigned a choregos, also selected by the archon, from among the wealthy citizens who would...
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  • 000 soldiers) Chorbishop Greek Executive Appointed Provincial (diocesan) Choregos Greek Administrative/ ceremonial Purchased Institutional (theatre festival)...
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    scarp of the south face of the Acropolis of Athens to commemorate the choregos of Thrasyllos. It is built in the form of a small temple and fills the...
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    Representation of women in Athenian tragedy Agôn Antistrophe Archon Aulos Chorêgos Chorus of the elderly in classical Greek drama Didascaliae Didaskalos Eisodos...
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    June 2019. "Piękny gest Lewandowskiego. Przekazał 100 tys. zł na leczenie chorego chłopca" [Beautiful gesture from Lewandowski. He donated 100 thousand zł...
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    teams of dithyrambic contests in Athens were recorded. The successful choregos would receive a statue that would be erected—at his expense—as a public...
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    completed, there were contests of dancing and singing, and choruses (led by a choregos) would perform dithyrambs. Some festivals may have included dramatic performances...
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    for which the public inscription still survives. In 348 BC, he became a choregos, paying the expenses of a theatrical production. Between 355 and 351 BC...
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  • made up of girls of similar ages, and they were led by an older girl (chorēgos), and trained by a professional poet. Along with training in song and dance...
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    to Andocides, once Alcibiades competed against a man named Taureas as choregos of a chorus of boys and "Alcibiades drove off Taureas with his fists. The...
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    mezzo-soprano Punch and Judy's baby – (non-singing) Pretty Polly – high soprano Choregos, friend to Punch – low baritone The Lawyer – high tenor The Doctor – bass...
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    plaudite!" (farewell and applaud), and the audience, guided by an unofficial choregos, chanted their approval antiphonally. This was often organized and paid...
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  • example, each City Dionysia, the eponymous archon selected a citizen to be a choregos for either one comedy or three tragedies together with a satyr-play. These...
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  • honour of Heracles in 331 BC, with the Cypriot Pasicrates of Soli being his choregos, and was victorious over Thessalus, whom the Cypriot Nicocreon of Cyprus...
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  • Battle of Salamis four years earlier. Themistocles provided the funds as choregos (producer), and one of the objectives of the play was to remind the Athenians...
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    Nikias, a structure built shortly after 320 BCE to commemorate the Athenian choregos Nikias and his victory in the choragic competitions of that year. As arranged...
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    not insist of this exemption, later serving as trierarch in c. 365 and choregos sometime after 360. Diodorus reports a further action by Chabrias the following...
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    building built on the Acropolis of Athens in 320–319 BCE to commemorate the choregos Nikias, son of Nikodemos. It was situated between the Theatre of Dionysos...
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    levy Wealth tax Roberts, Jim (6 September 2015). "Ancient Greek Theatre: Choregos [χορηγός]". Ancient Greek Theatre. Carmichael, Calum M. "Public munificence...
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  • (biernik) chorego chory chorõ chorych Instrumental (nŏrzyndnik) chorym chorōm chorymi Locative (miyjscownik) choryj chorych Genitive (dopołniŏcz) chorego Dative...
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    character as ‘good-humored and eager for instruction’. Philopappos served as a Choregos (producer for a chorus) twice; as an Agonothetes (magistrate of games)...
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    liturgical expenditures (for example, the monument erected by Lysicrates as choregos in 335/334) of which the extravagant nature could simultaneously be "a...
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  • wealthy Athenian, punched Demosthenes — who, at the time served as a patron (choregos) of the Greater Dionysia festival — in the face at the theater. Meidias...
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  • father's death and once in 368, and syntrierarch thrice more. He was also choregos in 352–1, winning the prize at the Dionysia. Apollodorus married by 365...
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  • DUSZNIKACH – NOWE FAKTY". 19 November 2010. "Policjanci zastrzelili psychicznie chorego. Sąd: niewinni". 9 April 2014. "Policja zastrzeliła 21-letniego motocyklistę"...
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