were awarded jointly to the playwright and the choregos. Such victories carried prestige for the choregos. Several notable political figures served as choregoi...

Choregos and theater actors, from the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii, Italy. Naples National Archeological Museum....

Monument of Lysicrates near the Acropolis of Athens was erected by the choregos Lysicrates, a wealthy patron of musical performances in the Theater of...

staged the production that included the Persians, with Pericles serving as choregos. Aeschylus married and had two sons, Euphorion and Euaeon, both of whom...

teams of dithyrambic contests in Athens were recorded. The successful choregos would receive a statue that would be erected—at his expense—as a public...

in Athens' City Dionysia festival in 472 BC, with Pericles serving as choregos. The first play in the trilogy, called Phineus, presumably dealt with Jason...

descriptions of the projected plays. Each playwright would be assigned a choregos, also selected by the archon, from among the wealthy citizens who would...

June 2019. "Piękny gest Lewandowskiego. Przekazał 100 tys. zł na leczenie chorego chłopca" [Beautiful gesture from Lewandowski. He donated 100 thousand zł...

completed, there were contests of dancing and singing, and choruses (led by a choregos) would perform dithyrambs. Some festivals may have included dramatic performances...

scarp of the south face of the Acropolis of Athens to commemorate the choregos of Thrasyllos. It is built in the form of a small temple and fills the...