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GCSE Classics · key term
An Athenian religious festival honouring Dionysus, including processions, choral contests and competitive dramatic performances.
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Paper 1
Revise: GreeceThe City Dionysia, also called the Great Dionysia, honoured Dionysus, associated with wine, revelry, fertility and drama. Their different programmes reflected the different deities they celebrated. Both also displayed the city’s wealth, organisation and achievements.
Keep the City Dionysia programme in order: five comedies on day two, then three tragedies and one satyr play on each of days three to five.
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