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choregus

In ancient Athens, a citizen who bore the expense of the chorus at dramatic festivals, or the musician who directed the chorus.

The most successful choregus in Athenian competitions was rewarded with an engraved tripod which he consecrated and placed on a monument. The monuments of two choregoi, Thrasyllus and Lysicrates, still exist in Athens.



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At Lacedaemon the choregus himself played on the flute; and it was so common at Athens that almost every freeman understood it, as is evident from the tablet which Thrasippus dedicated when he was choregus; but afterwards they rejected it as dangerous; having become better judges of what tended to promote virtue and what did not.
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