THE BEAUTIFUL CHORAGIC MONUMENT OF EYSICRATES : ATHENS 



In ancient Greece the superintendent of a theatrical presentation or director of a chorus 

 was known as a choragus. He was chosen by election, and the office, though very onerous, 

 was held to be one of great honor. He had to provide at his own expense for the equipment 

 and instruction of choruses for tragedies and comedies. The monument of Lysicrates is the 

 only survivor of a number of such structures which stood in the "Street of Tripods" to the 

 east of the theater of Dionvsus. 



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