Note (return) — THE TEMPLE ON THE ACROPOLIS BURNT BY THE PERSIANS.

Wilamowitz calls attention 153 to another fact. In classic times the contests of the Lenaea are Διονύσια τα επι Ληναίω, and the victories are νικαι Ληναϊκαί; the Megala Dionysia are always τα εν αστει, and the victories here νικαι αστικαί. These words certainly imply a distinction of place. How early these expressions may have been used, we learn from the account of Thespis. Suidas 154 is authority that Thespis first exhibited a play in 536 B.C.; and the Parian Marble records 155 that he was the first to exhibit a drama and to receive the tragic prize εν αστει.