Definition of Choregi

1. choregus [n] - See also: choregus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Choregi

chordwise
chore
chorea
chorea cordis
chorea dimidiata
chorea gravidarum
chorea major
chorea minor
choreal
choreas
choreatic
chored
choree
chorees
choregi (current term)
choregic
choregus
choreguses
choreic
choreic abasia
choreic movement
choreics
choreiform
choreiform movement
choreman
choremen
choreo-
choreoathetoid
choreoathetosis

Literary usage of Choregi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh (1898)
"Appointment of the choregi. To return to the preliminary arrangements in connexion with the ... choregi were also required for the dithyrambic contests. ..."

2. The Public Economy of Athens: In Four Books; to which is Added, A by August Boeckh (1828)
"The choregi appointed by the tribes were allotted by the Archon to the poets, which was called giving a ..."

3. Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens by Archaeological Institute of America (1897)
"Even in the fifth century the choregi were sometimes inclined to be parsimonious. That this tendency would seriously affect comedy itself, and not simply ..."

4. An Aristotelian Theory of Comedy: With an Adaptation of the Poetics, and a by Lane Cooper (1922)
"1 (2) From the scholiast on Aristophanes' Frogs 404 : ' In the archonship of the said Callias, according to Aristotle, it was decreed that two choregi ..."

5. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"Next he assigns choregi to the tragic poets, choosing three of the richest persons out ... Formerly he used also to assign five choregi to the comic poets, ..."

6. A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith, Francis Warre Cornish (1898)
"1 imperial minister, who had charge of the whole Then there was a drawing of lots among j supply of decoration, machinery, and costume the choregi as to who ..."

7. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"Next he assigns choregi to the tragic poets, choosing three of the richest persons out ... Formerly he used also to assign five choregi to the comic poets, ..."

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