Word: dionysian
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...doubt if there was so large a mob in the play 2000 years ago as in the modern version. When 'Oedipus Rex' was given in the Dionysian Theatre at Athens, where the play was originally produced the performances were given in a huge ampitheatre before an audience of some 19,000. In so large an ampitheatre, before so large an audience, the play was necessarily produced on a large scale. Yet even so I doubt if they had a mob as large as ours was this evening. This idea of a thundering mob and howling hundreds is pretty much...