scholars & valuable info

• Emmanuela Bakola:

  "Athens fashioned itself as the cultural capital of Greece"
• • Lenaia was for only domestic Athenian (and metic) audience due to poor sailing conditions (jan-feb)
  • City Dionysia was for an international audience since during prosperous sailing season (march-april)
• Peter Levi:

  “The influence of epic poetry on fifth century Athenian theatre is vast and persuasive”

  • mythical past
  • influential to contemporary audience- 'eating crumbs from the great table of Homer' Aeschylus
• Tyrant Peisistratus originally organised the City Dionysia in 6th century
• Robert Parker “Religion emphasised the sense of belonging to a community… discouraged individualism"
• Robert Parker: “The gods were happy to see performed in their honour many of the activities humans most relished”
• Robert PARKER: "Religon of delight and fear"
• "Athenians feared tyranny being restored"