Χρυσοΰν γένος (fr. 325)

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Citation context An entry in a fragmentary lexicon (μ to ω only) concerned
with whether adscript iota ought to be written with certain words. Ar. fr. 155
and Pl. Com. fr. 97 follow. Similar material, but with no mention of Eupolis, is
preserved at An.Ox. Ill p. 281.1 ώδή· μετά τού ι, παρά τό άδω, άοιδή και ωδή
(attributed to Choeroboscus).
Text The corrections and supplements of the text are from Rabe 1892. 412
(the editio princeps), with a better report of the manuscript readings at Rabe
1895. 151.
Interpretation The Odeion (lit. ‘Place for song’), a part of the Periclean build-
ing program (cf. Cratin. fr. 73), was a large, rectilinear building with a roof
supported by internal columns that abutted the east side of the Theater of
Dionysus (cf. And. 1.38). It served inter alia as a performance hall for musical
events associated with the Panathenaea (Plu. Per. 13. 11), an exhibition hall
for the proagdn before dramatic competitions (ΣνΓ; £gVxLS Aeschin. 3.67 = #145
Dilts), and a lawcourt (Ar. V. 1109; [D.] 59.52). See in general Travlos 1971.
387-91; Miller 1997. 218-42, although note that all references to the building
as recalling a Persian tent date to the Roman period and are thus most nat-
urally taken as referring not to the Periclean structure—burned when Sulla
sacked the city—but to the lst-century BCE Odeion erected by Ariobarzanes
II Philopator to replace it (IG IT 3426).