IGI3 960 Choregic dedication of Pythodoros for the City Dionysia, 415/4 BC

Choregic dedication of Pythodoros for the City Dionysia, 415/4 BC

IG I³ 960 Date: 415/4 BC

Aigeis was victorious Pythodoros son of Epizelos was sponsor (echorēge) Aristarchos was director (edidaske), Charias was archon (415/4).^[1]

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IG I³ 960 (Translated text) (IG Online) (PHI)

Agelidis, Weihgeschenke 2

Translation by: Irene Vagionakis, Claudio Huayna Avila

Monument type: Base (?)

Inscription type: Dedication (choregic)

Findspot: Library of Hadrian (Athens Ephoria BA 594)

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[1] This is a fifth-century dedication commemorating a victory in the dithyrambic competition at the City Dionysia (cf. IG II³ 4, 460 with notes). Though the upper surface is well preserved, there are no traces of holes for the attachment of a tripod. Pythodoros, the sponsor, was a prominent politician during the second half of the fifth century BC (cf. Davies, APF 12402). He was one of the Athenian commissioners of the Peace of Nikias in 421 (Thuc. 5.19.2 and 5.24.1), served as hipparch at about the same time (IG I³ 999), as eponym of the board of treasurers of Athena in 418/7 (IG I³ 305, l. 3; 329, l. 2; 370, ll. 3, 8), and as a general in the Argolid in summer 414 (Thuc. 6.105.2). This is the earliest fifth-century choregic dedication for the City Dionysia in which the archon's name is preserved.

Added: 14 Mar 2022
Updated: 5 Jul 2022
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