The other two days of the festival were likely devoted to dithyrambic contests until 487 / 6 BC, when comic poets were officially admitted to the agons and eligible for their own prizes.
12.
By the word " tragedy " here we can understand only the old dithyrambic and Photius, and Suidas, of the origin of the proverb " ouden pros ton Dtonuson ".
13.
In 1921, Brescia's " Dithyrambic Suite " for woodwind quintet premiered at Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's Berkshire Chamber Music Festival, with the performance featuring flautist Georges Barr�re.
14.
On the conquest of the island by the Athenians he was taken as a slave to Athens, where he came into the possession of the dithyrambic poet Melanippides, who educated him and set him free.
15.
Only one victory of Ion's is mentioned, on which occasion, it is said, having gained the dithyrambic and tragic prizes at the same time, he presented every Athenian with a pitcher of Chian wine.
16.
It is observed by the classicist Georg Heinrich Bode, that Antheas, with his " komos " of phallophori, stands in the same relation to comedy as Arion, with his dithyrambic chorus, to tragedy.
17.
In the painted scenes, the padded dancers and phallic figures of the Dionysan throng leading the mule show that the procession was a part of the dithyrambic celebrations that were the forerunners of the satyr plays of fifth century Athens.
18.
His high reputation as a poet is intimated by Xenophon, who makes Aristodemus give him first place among dithyrambic poets, alongside Homer, Sophocles, Polykleitos and Zeuxis, as the chief masters in their respective arts ( Xenoph.
19.
This would clearly be one of the earliest steps in the gradual transformation of the old dithyrambic performance into the dramatic tragedy of later times, and may tend to justify the statement which ascribes the invention of tragedy to the Sicyonians.
20.
In a series of odes and dithyrambic pieces, entitled " Mollberg's EpislJar " ( 1819, 1820 ), he strove to emulate the wonderful lyric genius of K . M . Bellman, of whom he was a student and follower.
