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Relevant Volumes

• III.III: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C.
• IV: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean C. 525 to 479 B.C.
• V: The Fifth Century B.C.
• VI: The Fourth Century B.C.
• VII.I: The Hellenistic World

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Google Books References

John Boardman; N. G. L. Hammond. The Cambridge Ancient History. Volume III.3 The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-23447-4.

John Boardman; N. G. L. Hammond; D. M. Lewis. The Cambridge Ancient History Volume IV .Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean C. 525 to 479 B.C. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-22804-6.

John Boardman (24 November 1988). The Cambridge Ancient History: Plates to Volume IV. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-30580-8.

John Boardman; J. K. Davies; M. Ostwald (1992). The Cambridge Ancient History. Volume V The Fifth Century B.C. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-23347-7.

The Cambridge Ancient History: Plates to volumes V and VI. Cambridge University Press. 1927.

Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards; Cyril John Gadd; John Boardman (13 October 1994). The Cambridge Ancient History. Volume VI: The Fourth Century B.C.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-23348-4.

F. W. Walbank (1984). The Cambridge Ancient History: The Hellenistic World. Volume VII.i The Hellenistic World: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-521-23445-0.


Volume V Athens

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The Cambridge Ancient History (CAH) does not have a dedicated volume “on” ancient Greek theatre, but discussions of drama and theatre architecture are scattered across several volumes and chapters, mainly where 5th–3rd c. Greek cultural history is treated.classics.cam​

Key CAH locations for Greek theatre and drama

Because there is no consolidated drama/theatre entry in the CAH index, the most efficient way to get to the material is:

• Look under “Drama”, “Theatre”, “Tragedy”, “Comedy”, and the playwrights’ names (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander) in the index of each of the following:

  • Second edition, Volume IV (Persian Wars to the Peloponnesian War) – cultural/intellectual chapters include discussion of the emergence of Athenian tragedy at the Dionysia, Aeschylus and Sophocles, and the building/development of the Theatre of Dionysus.wikipedia​

  • Second edition, Volume V (5th-century Greece after 479) – sections on “Intellectual developments” and “Athenian society” take in Euripidean tragedy, Old Comedy, and their political/intellectual contexts.wikipedia​

  • Second edition, Volume VI (4th century and early Hellenistic) – chapters on “Intellectual life” and “Hellenistic culture” cover Middle/New Comedy (esp. Menander) and later performance contexts (including theatres in the Greek West and Asia Minor).wikipedia​

  • For Hellenistic theatre buildings, check archaeological/cultural chapters in Volume VII (“Hellenistic Monarchies and the Rise of Rome”) under “cities”, “urbanism”, “public buildings”, and “theatres”.wikipedia​

• For archaic antecedents (choral performance, Dionysiac cult, festival structures), you sometimes get relevant background in:

  • Volume III, Part 3 (“The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C.”) – esp. the general cultural survey “The material culture of Archaic Greece”, which treats symposium, performance imagery, and the social frame from which early choral song and drama emerge.classics.cam​

Practical way to mine it

If you have digital access (Cambridge Histories Online or PDFs, like the Boardman vol. III.3 excerpt you’ve seen), the fastest method is:

1. Use the platform search on each volume for:

   • “tragedy”, “tragedies”

   • “comedy”, “comic”

   • “theatre”, “theater”

   • “Dionysia”, “Dionysus”

   • “chorus”, “choral”

2. Then cross-check with the index at the back; the indexes in vol. IV–VI are unusually good for names and topics.