. The Greek theater and its drama. ame was entered the total number ofvictories gained at that festival. We are especially interestedin two names in this list, Aeschylus and Sophocles. Of coursethe formers name did not originally head the list; it stood in theeleventh line. The numeral is broken away from behind hisname, but we know from other sources that he won thirteen(AIII) victories. He died before the establishment of thetragic contest at the Lenaea, so that his competition was Korte, Aristoteles NIKAI AIONTSIAKAI, Classical Philology, I (1906),391 ff., maintained that the Victors-Lists
. The Greek theater and its drama. ame was entered the total number ofvictories gained at that festival. We are especially interestedin two names in this list, Aeschylus and Sophocles. Of coursethe formers name did not originally head the list; it stood in theeleventh line. The numeral is broken away from behind hisname, but we know from other sources that he won thirteen(AIII) victories. He died before the establishment of thetragic contest at the Lenaea, so that his competition was Korte, Aristoteles NIKAI AIONTSIAKAI, Classical Philology, I (1906),391 ff., maintained that the Victors-Lists were transferred to stone straightfrom another book of Aristotles entitled Nr^at AiowcriaKai Ao-Ti/cai kolI ArjvaiKal(Victories at the City Dionysia and the Lenaea). Our knowledge of the natureof this work is confined to what can be inferred from its title and is too vague tojustify dogmatic conclusions. Figs. 770 and b are taken from Wilhehn, op. ciL, loi, and represent CorpusInscriptionum Graecarum, II, 977a and ab --,;. A traimient of the Athenian Victors-List See p. 324, n. 2 [..... .Jacr[-] [KapKt jios A 1 0 [AoT]u8 Til [ — -?] [Ai]o-xu[Aos —] [©£o]8eKras Fll [Ei-JexT;? 1 [A<^u]peis II [nojAvp- i [2o<^JokA^s Aril! II O;^- [. .. .]ro. Il[-?1 A [AptO-Tt]u9 [— I -- Fig. y-jb.—Wilhehiis Transcription and Restoration of Two Iragments of the Athenian Victors-List. See p. 324, n. 2 THEATRICAL RECORDS 325 restricted to the City Dionysia. But Suidas reports that accord-ing to some Aeschylus had gained twenty-eight the larger number is not to be rejected as worthlessbut is to be regarded as including the victories which Aeschylusplays are said to have won after his decease in competition, atboth festivals, with the works of living tragedians. To Sophoclesthe inscription assigns eighteen (AFIII) victories at the CityDionysia, and that is the number which most authorities Suidas, who reg
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