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City Dionysia and the Dramatic Festivals

The great Athenian spring festival of Dionysus at which tragedies, comedies, and dithyrambs were performed in competition, fusing civic religion with the birth of theatre.

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  1. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 14.8↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 9.72↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 12.60↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 2.11↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 6.1↗applies

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Herodotus, Histories 1.150.1↗applies

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Xenophon, On the Cavalry Commander 3.2↗applies

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 1.39↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 11.92↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 13.68↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 14.23↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 14.31↗applies

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Herodotus, Histories 1.23.1↗explains

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Herodotus, Histories 1.54.2↗explains

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.21.1↗applies

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Strabo, Geography 6.3.4↗applies

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 6.2↗explains

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 7.21.6↗explains

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Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae 13.12↗explains

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