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IG II2 2318-2325 represent the most substantial surviving body of evidence for the institutional history of the Athenian dramatic festivals from their establishment at the end of the 6th century BCE to their disappearance sometime in the mid- to late 100s. Millis and Olson offer a completely updated text of the inscriptions, based on a close study of the stones themselves; detailed explanations of the restorations of the dimensions and organization of the original records, with numerous redatings and the like; and new - and in some cases radically different - reconstructions of the monuments on which they were inscribed. The volume also includes substantial interpretative essays on each set of records, a full epigraphic and prosopographic commentary, and several indices.

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This important work of scholarship performs a major service in presenting full, up-to-date texts of these inscriptions and will be particularly useful to those interested in gleaning factual information about plays, poets, actors and choregoi. Stephen Lambert in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (7 June 2013) Il s'agit assurement d'un beau livre. La presentation claire et soignee du texte sur deux colonnes s'accompagne de bonnes (voire tres bonnes) photos des pierres. Intelligemment mises en regard des passages analyses, elles permettent au lecteur de verifier par lui-meme ce qui lui est dit. Brigitte Le Guen, sehepunkte 13 (2013), Nr. 10.

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S. Douglas Olson, Ph.D. (1987) in Greek, Bryn Mawr College, is Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. His numerous books include full-scale critical editions and commentaries on Aristophanes' Peace, Acharnians and (with Colin Austin) Thesmophoriazusae. Benjamin W. Millis, Ph.D. (2001) in Classical Philology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is Research Associate at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the history and epigraphy of ancient Corinth.

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