Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens

302 Pages·2011·14.15 MB·English

by  David Kawalko Roselli

TheaTer of The PeoPle
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TheaTer of the PeoPle
SPecTaTorS and SocieTy
in ancienT aThenS
DaviD KawalKo roSelli
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History—To 1500. 3. Theater and society—Greece—Athens—History—To 1500. I. Title.
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conTenTS
Conventions and aBBreviations Used vii
aCknowledgments xi
introdUCtion
TheaTer anD PeoPle in aThenS 1
ChaPter 1
The iDea of The auDience anD iTS role
in The TheaTer 19
ChaPter 2
SPace anD SPecTaTorS in The TheaTer 63
ChaPter 3
The economicS of The TheaTer:
Theoric DiSTribuTionS anD claSS DiviSionS 87
ChaPter 4
nonciTizenS in The TheaTer 118
ChaPter 5
women anD The TheaTer auDience 158
ePilogue 195
v
notes 203
BiBliograPhy 251
index loCorUm 275
general index 283
TheaTer of the PeoPle
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convenTionS and
abbreviaTionS uSeD
ATL = The Athenian Tribute Lists. B. D. Meritt, H. T. Wade-Gery, and M. F.
McGregor. Volume 3. Princeton. 1950.
ARV = Attic Red-Figure Vase Painters. J. D. Beazley. Second edition. Oxford. 1963.
Bekker, Anec. Graec. = Anecdota Graeca. 3 vols. I. Bekker. Berlin. 1814–1841.
DFA = The Dramatic Festivals of Athens. A Pickard-Cambridge. Second edi-
tion. 1968. Revised with supplement by J. Gould and D. M. Lewis. Oxford.
1988.
d-k = Die Fragmente der Versokratiker. H. Diels and W. Kranz (eds.). Sixth edi-
tion. Zurich. 1952.
Et. Magn. = Etymologicum Magnum. F. Sylburg. Leipzig. 1816.
FGrHist = Fragmente Griechischer Historiker. F. Jacoby. Berlin and Lei-
den. 1923–1958.
IG = Inscriptiones Graecae. Berlin. 1873–.
k-a = Poetae Comici Graeci. R. Kassel and C. Austin (eds.). Berlin. 1983–.
ML = A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions. R. Meiggs and D. Lewis. Revised
edition. Oxford. 1969.
MNC = Monuments Illustrating New Comedy. T. B. L. Webster. Volumes 1–2. Third
edition, revised by J. R. Green and A. Seeberg. (BICS Supplement 50). Lon-
don. 1995.
MTS = Monuments Illustrating Tragedy and Satyr Play. T. B. L. Webster. Second
edition. London. 1968.
Osborne, Naturalization = Naturalization in Athens. M. J. Osborne. 4 volumes.
Brussels. 1981–1983.
P.A. = Prosopographia Attica. 2 volumes. J. Kirchner. Berlin. 1901–1903.
PHibeh = The Hibeh Papyri II. E. G. Turner (ed.). London. 1955.
PMG = Poetae Melici Graeci. D. L. Page (ed.). Oxford. 1962.
POxy = The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. B. P. Grenfell et al. (eds.). London. 1898–.
SEG = Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Leiden. 1923–.
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TrGF = Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. R. Kannicht, S. Radt, B. Snell (eds.).
Göttingen. 1971–2004.
Journal abbreviaTionS
AHB Ancient History Bulletin
AION Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientali di Napoli
AJA American Journal of Archaeology
AJAH American Journal of Ancient History
AJP American Journal of Philology
AM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische
Abteilung
AncSoc Ancient Society
ArchDelt Archaiologikon Deltion
ASNP Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
AW Ancient World
BICS Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London
BSA Annual of the British School at Athens
ClAnt Classical Antiquity
CJ Classical Journal
C&M Classica et Mediaevalia
CP Classical Philology
CQ Classical Quarterly
CR Classical Review
G&R Greece and Rome
GRBS Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
ICS Illinois Classical Studies
JDAI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
PCPS Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society
QUCC Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica
RE Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Alterthumswissenschaft
REG Revue des études grecques
SMSR Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
TAPA Transactions of the American Philological Association
TRI Theatre Research International
WJA Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft
WS Wiener Studien
ZPE Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
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convenTionS anD abbreviaTionS for
ancienT auThorS anD worKS
Authors in square brackets indicate that the authorship is uncertain for a work
that has been traditionally ascribed to the author in question.
References to the scholia are indicated by Σ.
I have not been consistent with the transliteration of Greek names and terms,
but I have tried to maintain a certain logic in my usage. Those names and terms
with entries in the Oxford Classical Dictionary appear as they do in that reference
work. Readers will thus find the well-known “Sophocles” and the relatively un-
known “Nikostratos.”
Translations are my own unless noted otherwise.
aBBreviations Used for anCient aUthors
Ael. Aelian Is. Isaeus
Aesch. Aeschylus Isoc. Isocrates
Aeschin. Aeschines Lib. Libanius
ag Aulus Gellius Luc. Lucian
Andoc. Andocides Lyc. Lycurgus
Ar. Aristophanes Lys. Lysias
Arist. Aristotle Men. Menander
Ath. Athenaeus Paus. Pausanias
Dem. Demosthenes Philoch. Philochorus
Din. Dinarchus Pl. Plato
Diod. Sic. Diodorus Siculus Plaut. Plautus
Diog. Laert. Diogenes Laertius Plut. Plutarch
Eup. Eupolis Soph. Sophocles
Eur. Euripides Theocr. Theocritus
Harp. Harpocration Theophr. Theophrastus
Hdt. Herodotus Theopomp. Theopompus
Hesych. Hesychius Thuc. Thucydides
Hyp. Hyperides Xen. Xenophon
convenTionS and abbreviaTionS uSeD
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