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Title: The Greek theater and its drama
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Flickinger, Roy C. (Roy Caston), 1876-1942
Subjects: Greek drama -- History and criticism Theater -- Greece
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image:
Copyright Underwood & Underwood
Fig. 36
THEATER OF DIONYSUS IN ATHENS, LOOKING NORTH; CHOREGIC
MONUMENT OF THRASYLLUS IN THE BACKGROUND
Text Appearing After Image:
Copyright Underwood & Underwood
Fig. 37
THEATER OF DIONYSUS IN ATHENS, LOOKING NORTH AND WEST

INTRODUCTION

that they entirely exhaust the field. There is not a stone outside,
of Athens which can be assigned to any Greek theater before
400 B.c.¹ Yet all the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Eurip-
iides, and all the extant comedies of Aristophanes, except two
were prerformed before this date! In the latter half of the fourth
century Lycurgus, who was finance minister of Athens between
338 and 326 B.C., "completed"² the theater which is reproduced
so clearly in Dorpfelds plan (Fig. 32) that it is unnecessary to
describe it at length. Most of the stone remains now upon the
site belong to this structure. So far as the auditorium is pre-
served, its arrangements and furnishings are almost entirely
those of Lycurgus' time. Most of the inclosing walls, the stone
thrones in the front row for the use of dignitaries, and the stone
seats for the rest of the audience all belong to this period

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