Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum: 389

CHORUS-LEADERS AT DELOS

This is one of many similar inscriptions set up during the 3rd century B.C. to commemorate the festival of Apollonia in Delos (the complete series is IG_11.2.105-128). In previous centuries, Delos had been particularly famous for its female choruses, the kourai Deliades ( Hom:Hymn_3'156-164 ), but by this time the choruses were mostly similar to what was found in other parts of the Hellenistic world.

When Kleostratos was archon, these were the leaders of the choruses.

At the Apollonia:

• Pleistainetos son of Teleson
• Didymos son of Antigonos
• Stesileōs son of Skymnos
• Apemantos son of Herodikos

Boys, at the Dionysia:

• Kallidikos son of Diodotos
• Ortygenes son of Tychandros
• . . .
• Ergoteles son of Theophanes

Comedy:

• Androlas son of Sattos
• Pyrraithos son of Nesiotes
• Theorylos son of Diaktorides
• Aristeides son of Charilas
• (metics) Antigenes, Heraïskos

Tragedy:

• Ampithales son of Philonymos
• Neokrontides son of Blepyros
• Kraton son of Mnesiades
• Agloneas son of Ostakes
• (metics) Delikos son of Drimakos, Dorion
• Artemis slave of Euthymos was made free.

The following gave performances for the god.

• Flute-player : Xenophantos of Thebes
• Comic actors : Phaidros of Athens, Kephisios of Histiaia
• Citharist : Heris of Kalchedon
• Tragic actors : Theodoros of Megara, Themistonax of Paros, Nikostratos of Kassandreia.

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