The Greek City in the Roman Period list of villages (kōmai), with associatedmonagriai(farmsteads?) in the territory
of Oenoanda which are listed as being due to contribute cattle for sacrifice
(lines –). Then there is the detailed specification of the content of the
various forms of competition, and the prizes to be attached to them, listed
in the chronological sequence which is to be followed (lines –):
. Trumpeters and heralds. den(arii).
. Composers of Prose Encomia. den(arii).
. Poets. den(arii).
. Oboists. st prize den(arii)., nd .
. Comic Poets. st prize den(arii)., nd .
. Tragic Poets. st prize den(arii)., nd .
. Kitharodes. st prize , nd .
. Open competition. st prize den(arii)., nd , rd .
. Mime-artists and acts and displays. No prizes.
. Other acts giving pleasure to the city. den(arii). in all.
. Gymnastic competitions for citizens. den(arii). in all.
The detailed specification given here makes possible, not to say imperative, a
comprehensive new study of the competitive festival in the Greek world of
the imperial period, in which the primacy continued to the end to be held
by the ancient games of Delphi, Olympia, Nemea, and the Isthmus, together
with the Actia of Nicopolis. There have been important preliminary studies:
for instance the excellent collection of agonistic inscriptions published by
L. Moretti in ; the two suggestive papers by the great Louis Robert, cited
by Stephen Mitchell in his review article on Wörrle’s book (with an En-
glish translation of the text); and the collection of the inscriptions relating
to the artists of Dionysus in the new edition of Pickard-Cambridge on the
dramatic festivals of Athens.^80 But none comes anywhere near being the full-
scale study of the hierarchy of types of festival (from the major ones to the
most local), as well as their geographical distribution and their allocation
over the calendar, which could now be undertaken. Their geographical dis-
tribution alone would almost serve to define the world of the Greek city:
from Zeugma (butnotacross the Euphrates) to Bostra (theAktia Dousaria,
. L. Moretti,Iscrizioni agonistiche greche(); L. Robert, ‘‘Deux concours grecs à
Rome,’’CRAI(): ; L. Robert, ‘‘Discours d’ouverture,’’VIIIth International Congress of
Greek and Latin Epigraphy (), ; S. Mitchell, ‘‘Festivals, Games and Civic Life in
RomanAsiaMinor,’’JRS (): ; A. W. Pickard-Cambridge,The Dramatic Festivals
of Athens^2 , revised by J. Gould and D. M. Lewis (; reissued with corrections and supp.,
), – (the inscriptions relating to artists of Dionysus).