Definition of Choregic

1. of a Greek drama [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Choregic

chore
chorea
chorea cordis
chorea dimidiata
chorea gravidarum
chorea major
chorea minor
choreal
choreas
choreatic
chored
choree
chorees
choregi
choregic (current term)
choregus
choreguses
choreic
choreic abasia
choreic movement
choreics
choreiform
choreiform movement
choreman
choremen
choreo-
choreoathetoid
choreoathetosis
choreograph

Literary usage of Choregic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens by Archaeological Institute of America, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1892)
"Lower surface of roof of choregic Monument. has spread somewhat, and one of the blocks in the lowest course has been broken, allowing its fellows to slide ..."

2. Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr by Sara Anderson Immerwahr, Anne Proctor Chapin (2004)
"While it is true that the choregic monuments, unlike grave yonder, the docks, the porticoes and the rest, with which they beautified the city that they have ..."

3. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"The line of the street of Tripods was further determined by the discovery, in 1854, of the quadrangular base of another choregic monument to the north of ..."

4. Athens and Its Monuments by Charles Heald Weller (1913)
"Foundation of the choregic Monument of Nicias. near the Odeum of Herodes Atticus. ... The stones have long been assigned to the choregic monument ..."

5. Investigations Representing the Departments: Greek, Latin, Comparative by University of Chicago (1903)
"The establishment of the choregic. system seems to me to be, on the whole, by far the most plausible suggestion for the epoch event. ..."

6. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1904)
"In 1881 the French excavations at Delos brought to light a series of choregic inscriptions which, along with the agonistic inscriptions pertaining to the ..."

7. American Journal of Archaeology by Archaeological Institute of America (1887)
"... of a large choregic monument. A similar stone, still 1.67 met. long, ... which came the stones of the apse call to mind a choregic monument like that of ..."

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