Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction The Chorus in Greek Antiquity Inscriptions and Performance Epigraphic Chorality and Placemaking Chapters Making of the Corpus and Scope of the Work Period Genres Scholarship on the Post-Classical Chorus Chapter 1: Territories Space, Memory, and Performance Urban Choruses Between Performance and Architecture Mapping a Microregion--Miletos and Didyma Athenian Pilgrimages to Delphi Isyllos's Paean to Asklepios A Watershed Century? The Afterlife of Isyllos Conclusions Chapter 2: Plays The Spread and Reception of Theater after the Fifth Century BCE Between Theater and Ritual New Songs, Costumes, and Masks--Toward a Theatricalized Chorus Other Masked Choruses Hymn to the Mother of Gods and Mythological Burlesque Subdramatic Conventions in Post-Classical Inscriptions Chor(e)ography in Philodamos's Paean Conclusions Chapter 3: Encounters The Nile and the Sea Herodoros's Hymn to Apollo from Susa Chorality as a Cultural Export to Rome Imperial Games Conclusions Chapter 4: Politics Female Choruses and the Politics of Identity Women's Song from Herakleia under Latmos The Fifty Daughters of Endymion and the Aitolian Politics of Kinship Authorship Dating Singing Parasites--The Ithyphallic Hymn to Demetrios Poliorketes Another Watershed? Traffic in Praise Revisited--Teos and the Attalidai Hymndoi--Institutionalized Singing A Threnody for Antinoos Conclusions Chapter 5: Therapeutics Paeanic Revival Aelius Aristides's Choral Productions Therapeutic Landscapes Klaros at the Time of the Plague Healing Choruses and Witchcraft The Ephebic Hymn to Zeus from Pergamon The Materiality of Soundscape in the Athenian Asklepieion Conclusions Epilogue Appendices Appendix A: Post-Classical Choral Songs on Stones Appendix B: Post-Classical Choral Songs on Papyri, Ostraca, and Amulets Appendix C: Post-Classical Choral Songs from Literary Manuscripts and Quotations Bibliography Index.