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- Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around the Black Sea
- Frontispiece
- Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around the Black Sea
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Map
- Part I Approaches
- Part II Places
- 4 The Tragedians of Heraclea and Comedians of Sinope
- 5 The Phanagoria Chous
- 6 Theatre and Performance in the Bosporan Kingdom
- 7 Ancient Theatre in Tauric Chersonesus
- 8 Theatre at Olbia in the Black Sea
- 9 Celebrating Dionysus in Istros and Tomis: Theatrical Manifestations and Artistic Life in Two Ionian Cities of the Black Sea
- 10 Ancient Theatres and Theatre Art of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and Thracian Hinterland
- Part III Plays
- Part IV Performative Presences
- Epilogue: Dancing around the Black Sea: Xenophon, Pseudo-Scymnus and Lucian’s Bacchants
- References
- Black Sea Index
8 - Theatre at Olbia in the Black Sea
from Part II - Places
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2019
- Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around the Black Sea
- Frontispiece
- Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around the Black Sea
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Map
- Part I Approaches
- Part II Places
- 4 The Tragedians of Heraclea and Comedians of Sinope
- 5 The Phanagoria Chous
- 6 Theatre and Performance in the Bosporan Kingdom
- 7 Ancient Theatre in Tauric Chersonesus
- 8 Theatre at Olbia in the Black Sea
- 9 Celebrating Dionysus in Istros and Tomis: Theatrical Manifestations and Artistic Life in Two Ionian Cities of the Black Sea
- 10 Ancient Theatres and Theatre Art of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and Thracian Hinterland
- Part III Plays
- Part IV Performative Presences
- Epilogue: Dancing around the Black Sea: Xenophon, Pseudo-Scymnus and Lucian’s Bacchants
- References
- Black Sea Index
Summary
In every ancient polis, the theatre was a central civic institution, and Olbia Pontica cannot have proved an exception. We only know about the Olbian theatre from epigraphic evidence, and the period during which it existed is defined mainly by inscriptions because of the lack of archaeological evidence. The Olbian theatre receives a mention in four honorable decrees with the same context and in the same standard formula. All the records contain a description of someone’s benefaction and an order to proclaim a reward for their virtue during a festival of Dionysus ‘in the theatre’. They are dated from 330–320 to the second part of the third century BC.
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- Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture Around the Black Sea , pp. 135 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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