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1590/S141386702007000100029 Anna Papa, Dionysia Theoharidou, and Antonis Antoniadis Author affiliation: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Address for correspondence: Anna Papa, Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece; email: annap@med.
16) Robinson also makes clear the extent to which Elizabeth was the cynosure of performance, which reminds us sharply of how different the original performance context of [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], before an audience of about fifteen thousand at the City Dionysia, would have been to this production of a Latin version within the closed, hierarchical world of the university theater.
The Athenians have always made the most noise; and they left us an abundance of literary masterpieces, not least the great dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, written for performance at the Athenian festival called the City Dionysia.
 
 
 
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