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

A suspected passage in Diogenes Laertius declares (III 56) that it was the custom to contend with tetralogies at four festivals, the Dionysia, Lenaea, Panathenaea, and Chytri. If the passage is worth anything, it adds new testimony that there were dramatic representations at the Anthesteria. The Menander of Alciphron, also, would hardly exclaim 174 over ποίους χύτρους, unless the contest were one in which he, as dramatist, could have a part.