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Bosher , Edited by Edith Hall , Clemente Marconi , Prepared for publication by LaDale Winling Index More Information General Index Achaeus, 11 Archilochus, 24, 93–4 Actors of Dionysus guilds, 9–10 Arion, 25, 31 Aelian, 30, 52 Aristophanes, 1, 16, 20, 21, 52, 60, 86–7, 91, 195 Aeschylus, 1, 9, 17–18, 32, 63, 105–6, 191, 195 aulos accompaniment in plays, 145 chorus, use of, 134 characterizing playwrights as teachers of the Epicharmus, and see under Epicharmus city, 6 Gelon supporting, 189 choregoi, in, 136 Hieron, and see under Hieron Dionyson Nauagon,87 politics, and see politics and propaganda Ecclesiazusae, comic mask representing, 76 Sikels, 88 Frogs,66 Sicily, residency and death in, 148 comic mask representing, 76 tragic playwright, as, 30 Geras,87 works Just and Unjust arguments in Clouds, 135 Agamemnon,18 Lysistrata, 132 Aitnaian Women, 30, 193 Ploutos,87 Bacchae,63–4, 68 Thesmophoriazusae, 104, 119, 127, 129, 130 Eumenides,17–18, 84 topical political comedy, famous Life of Aeschylus,86 through, 82–3 Oresteia,18 treatise on comedy found in Pentheus,64 manuscripts, 31 Persians, 30, 49, 64, 83, 84, 90, 93, 95–7, vases, comedy represented on, 104, 113, 114, 98, 103, 130, 136, 193 119–20, 124, 130, 158 Philoctetes, comic mask representing, 76 Würzburg Telephos vase, Prometheus,18 Thesmophoriazusae and, 119, 127, Semele,64 129, 130 Theoroi or Isthmiastai, 191 Aristotle, 16, 20 Women of Aetna, 81, 83, 89–90, 97, 103 Dorians claiming invention of tragedy and Agathocles, 73, 178, 189 comedy, 58–9, 92 support for monumental theater building, Epicharmus, 16–17, 19 175, 178, 179 describing, 86–7 Agyris, 178 kings and tyrants, 94 aischrologia, 74, 78 link between Dionysiac cult and theater, Alcaeus, 93–4 treatment of, 56–7 Alcimus, 87 Aristoxenus of Selinus, 22 Alexander the Great, 9–10 iambic meters, and, 29, 136 Alexis of Thurii, 11, 131 Artemis, 40, 45, 72 Anaxilas of Rhegium, 16, 84, 97 dance and aulos-performance in honor Antiphanes, 63 of, 145 Aphrodite, 40, 42, 45 festivals of, 30–1, 44–5 represented in figurines, 77 assemblies see under drama in public Apollo, 42, 45, 67, 72 Asteas, 113 Gelon’s memorial to, 72 Astydamas Apollonius Dyscolus, 62 Hector, comic mask representing, 76 221 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49387-1 — Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily Kathryn G. Bosher , Edited by Edith Hall , Clemente Marconi , Prepared for publication by LaDale Winling Index More Information 222 General Index Athena, 40, 72 satyr plays, 11 Athenaeus, 19, 45, 62, 128 theater building see under drama in public dance and aulos-performance in honor of theater festivals/competitions, 11, 12 Artemis, noting, 145 theatrical evidence from the West studied in Deipnosophistae, 116–17 relation to, 3 Diomos as inventor of form of rustic theatrical vases see under vases song, 31 tragedy Epicharmus’ works Attic tragedy, 12, 25 Bacchae, quoting from, 62–3 comedy, opposition of tragedy and, 133 citing long speeches from, 28–9 developing from cult of Dionysus, 34, Earth and Sea, references to, 52 35, 41 phlyax comedy, 123 main genre of dramatic performance, Athenian theater, 1 as, 11 Attic drama touring, 10 western Greek theater as derivative of, 3 choral performance, 32 Athens, 1, 3 choregoi see under Athens choregoi choruses, 134 comedy, opposition of tragedy and, 133 comedy, 3 liturgy (act of public benefaction) Attic comedy, 11, 12 instituted at Athens, 133 Attic comedy in the West, 123–7 producing/funding Attic theater, 119, 132 chorus as key feature, 12, 158 vases, represented on see under vases definition of, 158 democracy, and, 1–2, 4, 91–3, 105–6, 180 judging comedy in Athens, 27 Doric cities in gulf of Taranto hostile to, main genre of dramatic performance, 125–6 as, 11 networks of literary and artistic Megarian comedy, 20 development, 6–7 phlyax vases, interpreting see phlyax vases Pnyx, 167, 168, 180 tragedy, opposition of comedy and, 133 rivalry with Syracuse, 4 democracy, and, 1–2, 4, 91–3 theater see Athenian theater development of, 1–2 theater of Dionysius see theater of Dionysius Dionysus, and Augustus, 182 arguments against Dionysus as god of theater, 56–7 Bacchus see Dionysus (Bacchus) Athenian preoccupation with Dionysus Bacchylides, 84 and theater, 24 Attic drama performed at festival of Caecilius Statius, 87 Dionysus, 11 Callippus, 73 Dionysus as god of Athenian theater, Chionides, 16, 17, 59 57, 69 choregoi see under Athens Dionysus’ association with theater in choruses Athens, 55–6 Athenian theater, key feature of, 12, 158 tragedy developing from cult of Epicharmus see under Epicharmus Dionysus in Athens, 34, 35 training schools for, 29 interpretation of classical Greek theater as vases, and, 12, 134–5, 136, 171, 173 Athenian, 4 Christianity, 41 latter half of fifth century, at height in, 2 Chrysostom, 182 mime, 11–12, 192 Cicero, 24, 42 non-Athenian audiences appreciating Demeter and Kore, importance of cult Athenian plays, 80–1 of, 70–2 Panhellenic interest in Attic drama, 6 Clement of Alexandria, 22–3 performance genres, 11 Cleophon, 63 popularity of Athenian drama, 80–1 comedy recitation, 126 Athenian see under Athenian theater © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49387-1 — Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily Kathryn G. Bosher , Edited by Edith Hall , Clemente Marconi , Prepared for publication by LaDale Winling Index More Information General Index 223 Doric comedy, 19–22 Epicharmus, and see under Epicharmus Demeter, and, 46 importance of cult, 43, 129 Dorians first to develop forms of tragedy represented in figurines, 77–8 and comedy, 19, 58–9, 92 Sicilian theater, and see under Sicilian influence of, 20 theater Epicharmus, and see under Epicharmus Syracuse, and see under Syracuse Megarian comedy, 20, 22 theatrical aspects of Demeter’s cult, 35–6 Rhinthon, and see under Rhinthon theatrical/performative aspects included in Sicilian see under Sicilian theater worship of, 35 tragedy, and, 133 thematic similarities with cult of Dionysus, vases, and see under vases 74–5, 78–9 comic figurines and miniature comic masks, 75–8 underworld, and, 77–9 care taken to assemble in graves, 76–7 Democopus, 192 character and mask types, 75–6, 77 democracy, theater and, 1–2, 4, 91–3 Dionysism, influence of, 77–8 Didymus, 28 sites where found, 75, 77 Diocles, 63 tragedians represented by masks, 76 Diodorus Siculus, 35–6, 48–9 comic vases see under vases Demeter and Kore, importance of cult of, 71–2 Constitution of the Athenians,92 ribald and obscene jokes, describing, 75 Corinth theater in Agyrium, 178 choral performances, 25 Diogenes Laertes, 17 early epic among the ruling class of, 23 Diomos, 31 epic tradition, 24 Dion, 73 Cratinus Dionysia, 17 Bousiris,87 Dionysius I, 2, 25, 112, 176, 192, 195 creating conditions for artisans to travel, 126 Darius, 95–7 destruction, causing, 176, 179 De Comoedia,16 extending control from Syracuse over most Deinolochus, 30, 32 of Sicily, 189 comedies, writing, 157, 158, 190–1 great building program at Syracuse, Gelon and Hieron supporting, 189 instituting, 183 Telephos, 128–9 theaters, and Deinomenid tyrants see under politics and monumental theater building, propaganda; Sicily supporting, 175 Demeter support for, 194–5 burlesque, and, 74–5, 77–8 theaters of monumental proportions Ceres and Proserpina in Ennius’ Epicharmus existing under Dionysius, 184, 189 see under Ennius use of theater, 194 cult sites, nature of, 35 theatrical aspirations/aspiring playwright, Deinomenid tyrants as priests, 32, 49, 71, 72 149, 158, 162, 175, 181, 193 Demeter and Kore, cult of cool reception of plays in Athens, 182 cult sites where theaters built, 35, 37–42 tyranny, criticism of, 99, 182 cult widespread and important, 35, 43, 70–1 vases, and, 189, 193 desecration of temples by Dionysius II, 189, 195 Carthaginians, 49 Dionysus (Bacchus), 40, 42, 45 Gelon’s twin temples to, 71–2 Athens theater, and see under Athenian politics, religion and daily life, dominance theater in, 35, 70–1 burlesque, and, 74–5 Demeter and Kore, festivals to, 35–6 comic actors, and, 61–2 Thesmophoria, 35–6, 43, 48, 129 Dionysiac ritual and religion and theater, Sicily, and see under Sicily links between, 11 Sicilian theater, and see under Sicilian early development of theater in Sicily, theater and, 55–6 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49387-1 — Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily Kathryn G. Bosher , Edited by Edith Hall , Clemente Marconi , Prepared for publication by LaDale Winling Index More Information 224 General Index Dionysus (Bacchus) (cont.) theater buildings, 2 Epicharmus, and, 24, 55–6 Agrigento, 38–9, 42, 164 Dionysus in the fragments of Epicharmus, Helorus, 37–8, 177, 185–6 62–70, 73–4 Metaponto, 166–7 dominance of Dionysus not Demeter in Morgantina, 39–40, 164, 176, 177, 179 fragments, 73–4 Panionion, 165–6 non-Greek cultures of Italy, cult alive theater of Dionysius see theater of among, 128 Dionysius Sicily/Sicilian theater, and see under Sicilian theater design and influence of Athens, theater 169–75 theater of Dionysius see theater of Dionysius actors and the stage, historical evidence theatrical vases, on, 108 from the West emphasizing, 173 thematic similarities with cult of Demeter, Athens as conceptual and architectural 74–5, 78–9 model for theaters, 169 underworld, and, 77–9 distinctive architecture of Sicilian theater Dionysus Zagreus,