ATHENS - The City Dionysia

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  • The City Dionysia
    • Preparation for the festival
      • preparations started in the summer of the previous year
      • tragic playwright who wanted to participate needed to present a synopsis of 4 plays
        • 3 Tradegies
        • 1 Satyr play
      • comic playwrights only had to present a synopsis of one comedic play
      • when the playwrights were chosen (3 tragic and 3 comic playwrights) they all had to quickly rehearsal all their plays
        • The Archon chose the 3 lead actors for each playwright)
    • The chorêgos
      • The Archon chose a chorêgos for each playwright
      • They were the supervisor and financial backer for the playwright (thus had to be rich)
    • DAY ONE
      • The procession called pompê happened
        • Started outside the city and then made its way to the temple of Dionysus, where a sacred bull and many other animals were sacrificed
    • DAY TWO - FOUR (play days)
      • everyday started with 3 tragedies in the morning, a satyr play in the early afternoon, and then a comedic play after
      • On Day Two, the priest of Dionysus sacrificed a piglet in the altar in the orchestra. Then, 3 important presentations were made
        • Parade of tribute - Athens allies had to pay Athens by this time. The money that was paid was laid on the orchestra for the audience to see.
        • proclamation of honours - a herald announced the names of the citizens who had done an outstanding service for Athens and awarded the, with a crown
        • parade of orphans - the children who had lost their fathers in battle had their education paid as respect
    • The audience
      • the audience members needed a token to be able to watch. The rest of Athens paid for the token of those who were too poor to afford it.
      • the audience would have had to bring their own cushions and food . They would have also had to bring their own clothes to protect themselves from the weather
    • DAY 5 - Judging
      • Judging was highly democratic to avoid bias
      • 1 - Before the festival began, the council wrote the names of each of the 10 tribes in the city
      • 2 - the lists of each tribe was sealed in an urn and then stored in the Acropolis
      • 3 - On the first morning of the plays, one name from each tribe was chosen randomly. Each chosen person had to swear impartiality and then was made a judge
      • 4 - The judges watched all the plays with the audience. They would have probably been influenced by the audience's reaction to each play.
      • 5 - On the fifth day, each judge wrote his order of merit on a tablet
      • 6 - The Archon then chose 5 random tablets, and which ever playwright got the most votes won
    • Review
      • any citizen who wanted to complain about how the city Dionysia had been run could
      • If their complaint was valid, then the Archon could be fined
      • If the complaint was not valid, then the Archon was crowned the thank him for his efforts

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