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Definition of Dionysia
1. Noun. An orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus).
Definition of Dionysia
1. n. pl. Any of the festivals held in honor of the Olympian god Dionysus. They correspond to the Roman Bacchanalia; the greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of both tragedies and comedies.
Definition of Dionysia
1. Noun. The orgiastic Ancient Greek festivals seasonally held in honor of Dionysus, which evolved into Greek comedy and tragedy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Dionysia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh (1898)
"The City dionysia. The City dionysia, the feast of Dionysus Elet*hereus', was
far the most splendid of the Bacchic festivals, and was therefore also called ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"628-9; chen,-i hv hi< uil'o dionysia. A Hubert de Munch ra in the reign of ...
He left by his wife Amicia an only daughter, dionysia, who married in 12! ..."
3. Chapters in the History of Actors and Acting in Ancient Greece: Together by John Bartholomew O'Connor (1908)
"The Fasti of the City dionysia IG. II. 971 regularly record as the last item in
each year-list the victorious tragic actor in every fragment that is extant ..."
4. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1894)
"Peisistratus favored a popular and growing taste by The Great establishing a new
festival of the god, dionysia. more considerable than any which then ..."
5. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Alban Butler (1866)
"... refused to comply with certain impious orders which he published, to be
tormented and put to death. dionysia, a lady remarkable for her great beauty, ..."
6. The Constitutional Antiquities of Sparta and Athens by Gustav Gilbert (1895)
"... had jurisdiction in all suits in which family rights of citizens came into
question.2 His religious duties consisted in conducting the great dionysia, ..."
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