CHORAGIC MONUMENTS

kərăjˈĭk, –rājˈ–, kō– [Gr.,=of the choragus, the chorus leader], small decorative structures erected in ancient Greece to commemorate the victory of the leader of a chorus in the competitive choral dances. The best known is that of Lysicrates (c.335 b.c.), still standing in Athens, a graceful circular structure showing one of the early uses of Corinthian columns.

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Mythology & Monuments of Ancient Athens: Being a Translation of a Portion of the 'Attica' of Pausanias
Book by Margaret De G. Verrall; Macmillan, 1890
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Antiquities, Cults--Greece--Athens, Mythology, Greek
...ancient building, the choragic monument of Nikias...of Beules Gate. The monument of Nikias, compared with our two other choragic monuments, is considerably later...noticeable that the Nikias monument, with its front of six...
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The Ancient City of Athens: Its Topography and Monuments
Book by Ida Thallon Hill; Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1953
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Antiquities
...addition; Frazer, II, p. 231, thinks the entire monument, including the statue of Dionysos, was dedicated...pp. 318-319, N. 1; Dinsmoor W. B., "The Choragic Monument of Nikias", AJA , 1910, pp. 459-484, Figs...
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The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its Historic Development
Book by William Bell Dinsmoor, William J. Anderson, R. Phené Spiers; Biblo and Tannen, 1973
Subjects: Architecture--Greece
...therefore, that another choragic monument of which only fragments have...of Phalerum, restricting choragic monuments to simple memorials erected...1 The Ionic choragic monument has never been published...
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The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its Historic Development
Book by William Bell Dinsmoor; Biblo and Tannen, 1973
Subjects: Architecture--Greece
...therefore, that another choragic monument of which only fragments have...of Phalerum, restricting choragic monuments to simple memorials erected...1 The Ionic choragic monument has never been published...
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The Story of Athens: A Record of the Life and Art of the City of the Violet Crown Read in Its Ruins and in the Lives of Great Athenians
Book by Howard Crosby A. M. Butler; Century, 1902
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--History
...Ceramicus, 26 , 170 Chalkotheka, 243 Chandler, 513 Chares, General, 340 Chios, 57 Choerilus, 120 Choragic columns, 425 Choragic monuments, 363 , 365 , 386 , 425 Christianity, 420 , 458 , 460 Cicero, 407 Cimon, 125 , 137 , 176 , 178...
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Choragic Monuments
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHORAGIC MONUMENTS k raj ik, raj , ko Gr.,=of the choragus, the chorus leader, small decorative structures erected in ancient Greece to commemorate...
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Greek Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...earliest and the one in which the noblest monuments were erected. Theories of the origin...examples, both at Athens, are the choragic monument of Lysicrates (c.335 b.c.) and...exemplified in most of the important monuments of the great period. In dipteral temples...


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