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Headword:
*nemh/seis
u(pokritw=n
Adler number: nu,170
Translated headword: allocations of actors
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The poets used to take three actors allocated by lot to act in their plays; of these [actors] the victorious one is automatically[1] invited for the following year. So [the process] is like distributions.
Greek Original:*nemh/seis u(pokritw=n: oi( poihtai\ e)la/mbanon trei=s u(pokrita\s klh/rw| nemhqe/ntas u(pokrinome/nous ta\ dra/mata, w(=n o( nikh/sas ei)s tou)pio\n a)/kritos paralamba/netai. e)/stin ou)=n oi(=on diaire/seis.
Notes:
Photius nu113 Theodoridis and (under
ne/mhsis u(pokritw=n)
Hesychius nu286 also have this entry.
Some of its vagueness is dispelled in
DFA [see bibliography below] 93. The context is tragedy at the Athenian City Dionysia, and each of the three competing playwrights gets his protagonist (which is what this phraseology means) at random.
[1] Literally, without judgment.
Reference:
A. Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens edn.2, revised J. Gould and D.M. Lewis: Oxford 1968
Keywords: definition; religion; stagecraft; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 October 2005@09:03:37.
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