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The Theater of Dionysus: Bibliography

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Bibliographic Studies

• Green, J.R. "Theatre Production: 1971-1986," Lustrum 31 (1989) 7-95.
• Green, J.R. "Theatre production: 1987-1995," Lustrum 37 (1995) 7-202, 309-18.
• Green, J.R. "Theatre Production: 1996-2006," Lustrum 50 (2008) 7-302.
• Moretti, J.-C. "L'architecture des théâtres en Grèce (1980-1989)," Topoi 1 (1991) 7-38.

The Archeology of the Theater of Dionysus

• Arnott, P. Greek Scenic Conventions in the 5th Century B.C. Oxford, 1961.
• Ashby, C. "The Case for the Rectangular/Trapezoidal Orchestra," Theatre Research International 13 (1988) 1-20.
• Bethe, E. Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Theaters im Altertum. Leipzig, 1896.
• Bieber, M. History of the Greek and Roman Theater. Second edition. Princeton, 1961.
• Bodensteiner, E. "Szenische Fragen über den Ort des Auftretens und Abgehens von Schauspielern und Chor im griechischen Drama," Jahrbücher für classiche Philologie, Supplement 19 (1893) 637-808.
• Boersma, J.S. Athenian Building Policy from 561/0 to 405/4 B.C. Gröningen, 1970.
• Broneer, O. "Odeion and Skenê," AJA 56 (1952) 172.
• Broneer, O. "The OXETOS in the Greek Theatre," in Classical Studies Presented to Edward Capps (Princeton, 1936) 29-41.
• Broneer, O. "The Tent of Xerxes and the Greek Theater," University of California Publications in Classical Archaeology I, no. 12 (1944) 305-12.
• Camp, J.M. The Athenian Agora. Updated, with corrections. New York, 1992.
• Csapo, E. "The Men who Built the Theatres: Theatropolai, Theatronai and Arkhitektones (with an archeological appendix by H. R. Goette)," in P. Wilson, ed., Epigraphy of the Greek Theatre (Oxford 2007) 87-115.
• Csapo, E. and W.J. Slater. The Context of Ancient Drama. Ann Arbor, 1995.
• Daux, G. "Chronique des Fouilles 1961 — Sanctuaire de Dionysos," BCH 86 (1962) 640-42.
• Dawson, S.E. "The theatrical audience in fifth-century Athens: numbers and status," Prudentia 29 (1997) 1-14.
• Dearden, C.W. The Stage of Aristophanes. London, 1976.
• Dinsmoor, W.B. The Architecture of Ancient Greece. New York, 1975. (Reprint of 1950 third edition.)
• Dinsmoor, W.B. "The Athenian Theater of the Fifth Century," in Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson (St. Louis, 1951) 1.309-30.
• Dörpfeld, W. "Grabungen im Dionysos-Theater in Athen," Praktika 1925-1926 25-32.
• Dörpfeld, W., and E. Reisch Das griechische Theater. Athens, 1896.
• Dover, K.J. "The Skene in Aristophanes," PCPS 192 (1966) 2-17.
• Fiechter, E.R. Antike griechische Theaterbauten, vols. 5-7: Das Dionysos-Theater in Athen (Stuttgart, 1935-1936); vol. 9: Das Dionysos-Theater in Athen . . . (Stuttgart and Köln, 1950).
• Froning, H. Review of Jobst: Gnomon 45 (1973) 78-84.
• Gebhard, E. "The Form of the Orchestra in the Early Greek Theater," Hesperia 43 (1974) 428-40.
• Goette, H.R. "An Archaeological Appendix," in P. Wilson, ed., The Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies (Oxford 2007) 116-21.
• Gogos, S. "Bemerkungen zu den Theatern von Priene und Epidauros sowie zum Dionysostheater in Athen," JÖAI 67 (1998) 65-106.
• Hammond, N.G.L. "More on Conditions of Production to the Death of Aeschylus," GRBS 29 (1988) 5-33.
• Hammond, N.G.L. "The Conditions of Dramatic Production to the Death of Aeschylus," GRBS 13 (1972) 387-450.
• Hammond, N.G.L. and W. Moon "Illustrations of Early Tragedy at Athens," AJA 82 (1978) 371-83.
• Hourmouziades, N.C. Production and Imagination in Euripides. Athens, 1965.
• Jobst, W. Die Höhleim griechischen Theater des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Eine Untersuchung zur Inszenierung klassischer Dramen. Vienna , 1970.
• Junker, K. "Vom Theatron zum Theater: zur Genese eines griechischen Bautypus," AK 47 (2004) 10-33.
• Kalligas, P. "[Ergasiai Taktopoieseos kai Diamorphoseos tou Hierou Dionusou Eleuthereos tou Notiou Klituos Akropoleos] (1961-1962)," Deltion 18 (1963) Chron. 12-18.
• Kenner, H. "Zur Archäologie des Dionysostheaters in Athen," JÖAI 57 (1986-1987) 55-91.
• Kolb, F. Agora und Theater, Volks- und Festversammlung. Berlin, 1981.
• Longo, O. "Teatri e theatra. Spazi teatrali e luoghi politici nella città greca," Dioniso 58 (1988) 7-33.
• Lendle, O. "Überlegungen zum Bühnenkran," in E. Pölhmann et al., eds., Studien zur Bühnendichtung und zur Theaterbau der Antike (Studien zur klassischen Philologie 93 [1995]) 165-72.
• Maass, M. Die Prohedrie des Dionysostheaters in Athen. Munich, 1972.
• Mastronarde D.J. "Actors on high: the skene roof, the crane, and the gods in Attic drama," ClAnt 9 (1990) 247-94.
• Melchinger, S. Das Theater der Tragödie. Munich, 1974.
• Moretti, J.-C. "L'adaptation des théâtres de Grèce aux spectacles imperiaux," in C. Landes and V. Kramérovskis, eds., Spectacula II: Le théâtre antique et ses spectacles (Lattes, 1992) 179-85.
• Moretti, J.-C. "Le théâtre antique," Ramage 12 (1994-1995) 43-76.
• Moretti, J-C. "The theater of the sanctuary of Dionysus Eleuthereus in late fifth-century Athens," ICS 24-25 (1999-2000) 377-98.
• Moretti, J-C. "Le théâtre du sanctuaire de Dionysos Éleuthéreus à Athènes, au Ve s. av. J.-C.," REG 113 (2000) 275-98.
• Moretti, J.-C. "Formes et destinations du proskénion dans les théâtres hellénistiques de Grèce," Pallas 47 (1997) 13-39.
• Moretti, J.-C. "L'adaptation des théâtres de Grèce aux spectacles impériaux," in L. Christian, ed., Spectacula II: Le théâtre antique et ses spectacles (Lattes, 1992) 179-185.
• Moretti, J.-C. "Les entrées en scène dans le théâtre grec: l'apport de l'archéologie," Pallas 38 (1992) 79-107.
• Müller, A. Lehrbuch der griechischen Bühnenalterthümer. Freiburg, 1886.
• Navarre, O. Dionysos. Étude sur l'organization matérielle du théâtre athénien. Paris, 1895.
• Newiger, H.-J. "Drama und Theater," in G. A. Seeck, ed., Das Griechische Drama (Darmstadt, 1979) 496-503.
• Newiger, H.-J. "Zwei Bermerkungen zur Spielstätte des attischen Dramas im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.," WS 10 (1976) 80-92.
• Newiger H.-J. "Ekkyklema und Mechané in der Inszenierung des griechischen Dramas," WJA 16 (1990) 33-42.
• Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. The Dramatic Festivals of Athens. Second edition. (revised by J Gould and D.M. Lewis) Oxford, 1968.
• Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens. Oxford, 1946.
• Pöhlmann, E. "Die Prohedrie des Dionysostheaters im 5. Jahrhundert und das Bühnenspiel der Klassik," MH 38 (1981) 129-46.
• Pöhlmann, E. "New arguments for a skene building in early Greek tragedy," Platon 53 (2003) 31-40.
• Polacco, L. Il teatro di Dioniso Eleuterio ad Atene. Rome, 1990.
• Robert, C. "Zur Theaterfrage," Hermes 32 (1897) 421-53.
• Ruter, W.L. "Seating Arrangements in the Theater of Dionysos," ASCS Papers 1934.
• Schnurr, C. "Zur Topographie der Theaterstatten und der Tripodenstrasse in Athen," ZPE 105 (1995) 139-153.
• Scullion, J.S. The Athenian Stage and Scene-Setting in Early Tragedy. Diss. Harvard, 1990.
• Scullion, J.S. Three Studies in Athenian Dramaturgy. Stuttgart, 1994.
• Shear, T.L., Jr. "The Athenian Agora: Excavations of 1973-1974," Hesperia 44 (1975) 331-74.
• Slater, N.W. "The Lenaean Theatre," ZPE 66 (1986) 255-64.
• Stanley, A.E. Early Theater Structures in Ancient Greece: A Survey of Archaeological and Literary Recordes from the Minoan Period to 388 B.C. Diss. Berkeley, 1970.
• Thompson, H.A. The Athenian Agora: A guide to the excavation and museum. Third edition. Athens, 1976.
• Townsend, R.F. Aspects of Athenian Architectural Activity in the Second Half of the Fourth Century B.C. Dissertation University of North Carolina, 1982.
• Townsend, R.F. "The Fourth-Century Skenê of the Theater of Dionysos at Athens," Hesperia 55 (1986), 421-38.
• Townsend, R.F. "Classical signs and anti-classical signification in 4th-century Athenian architecture," in A.P. Chapin, ed., Essays in honor of S.A. Immerwahr (Princeton, 2004) 305-26.
• Travlos, J. "[Anaskaphai en toi dionusiakoi theatroi]," Praktika 1951 41-52.
• Travlos, J. Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens. New York, 1971.
• Trendall, A.D., and T.B.L. Webster. Illustrations of Greek Drama. London, 1971.
• Walbank, M.B. "Leases of Sacred Properties in Attica in the Mid-Fourth Century," in Summary of Papers, AJA 86 (1982) 289.
• Walbank, M.B. "Leases of Sacred Properties in Attica, Part I," Hesperia 52 (1983) 100-35.
• Wickkiser, B.L. "A Monologue of New Comedy on the Athenian Stage (PCG VIII 1001)," GRBS 50 (2010) 159-73.
• Winter, F.E. "The Stage of New Comedy," Phoenix 37 (1983) 38-47.
• Wurster, W.W. "Die neuen Untersuchungen am Dionysostheater in Athen," Architectura 9 (1979) 58-76.
• Wurster, W.W. "Die Architektur des griechischen Theaters," Antike Welt 24 (1993) 20-42.
• Wycherley, R.E. "Lenaion," Hesperia 34 (1965) 72-76.
• Wycherley, R.E. The Athenian Agora III: Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia. Princeton, 1957.

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