Victory and Bureaucracy: The Process of Agonistic Rewards

Alternatively, in a city that did not support festivals with both musical and athletic elements, there might be only one association dedicated uniquely to gymnic competitors; in some larger cities of Caria, for instance, the references to èjuSqpoûvxe^ GsaxpiKoi (lit. "theatre folk stopping over...

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Published in:Phoenix (Toronto) 2015-03, Vol.69 (1), p.147-169
Main Author: Slater, William
Format: Article
Language:English
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Associations
Awards & honors
Bureaucracy
Cities
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Summary:Alternatively, in a city that did not support festivals with both musical and athletic elements, there might be only one association dedicated uniquely to gymnic competitors; in some larger cities of Caria, for instance, the references to èjuSqpoûvxe^ GsaxpiKoi (lit. "theatre folk stopping over") suggest that there were no permanent seats of the Dionysiac Artists there.5 Finally, despite this tendency to overlap the divisions we have outlined, caution is required in the use of the word "merge" of the main unions; the unions often cooperated in managing festivals-trumpeters and heralds/kitharodes appear in gymnic festivals6-but there is almost no proof that they ever merged or even that they could merge.7 This rough outline conceals many problems of detail, as one must expect in associations that lasted for many centuries but which in origin were conditioned by local circumstances.
ISSN:0031-8299
1929-4883
1929-4883
DOI:10.1353/phx.2015.0049