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... persons , who are , properly speaking , neither actors nor Choreutæ , although they bear a strong resemblance to the latter . Of such a descrip- tion are the Areopagites and the Escort of Women in the Eumenides : the last - mentioned ...
... persons , who are , properly speaking , neither actors nor Choreutæ , although they bear a strong resemblance to the latter . Of such a descrip- tion are the Areopagites and the Escort of Women in the Eumenides : the last - mentioned ...
Page 49
... persons . This brings us nearer the mark ; but the number 50 must be taken with some modification . The Dithyrambic Chorus was cyclic ; that is , it danced in a circle round the Dio- nysian Altar ; the Tragic was quadrangular ...
... persons . This brings us nearer the mark ; but the number 50 must be taken with some modification . The Dithyrambic Chorus was cyclic ; that is , it danced in a circle round the Dio- nysian Altar ; the Tragic was quadrangular ...
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... persons . How was this large company exhibited at once to the spectators ? It has generally been supposed that the Eccyclema or Exostra was employed for this purpose . But in every instance where this machine was beyond all question ...
... persons . How was this large company exhibited at once to the spectators ? It has generally been supposed that the Eccyclema or Exostra was employed for this purpose . But in every instance where this machine was beyond all question ...
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... persons on the stage : no doubt actual blasts of the trumpet pealed through the theatre , and the herald's cry , " ' Aкoveтe λew , " was heard . Thus are the entire Athenian people irresistibly drawn in to bear their part in the drama ...
... persons on the stage : no doubt actual blasts of the trumpet pealed through the theatre , and the herald's cry , " ' Aкoveтe λew , " was heard . Thus are the entire Athenian people irresistibly drawn in to bear their part in the drama ...
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... person , and excluded in particular from his Phratria and from all religious ceremonies . So the Erinnyes say of Orestes , v . 625 , ποίοισι βωμοῖς χρώμενος τοῖς δημίοις , ποία δὲ χέρνιψ φρατόρων προσδέξεται ; and in Homer , Il . ix ...
... person , and excluded in particular from his Phratria and from all religious ceremonies . So the Erinnyes say of Orestes , v . 625 , ποίοισι βωμοῖς χρώμενος τοῖς δημίοις , ποία δὲ χέρνιψ φρατόρων προσδέξεται ; and in Homer , Il . ix ...
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