festival
Ludi Apollinares
the Apollinarian games
also: ludis Apollinaribus, the Apollinarian games
Annual games in honour of Apollo, held in July with theatrical performances. At the games of 59 BC the actor Diphilus's lines against Pompey provoked a pointed popular demonstration.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.19 §2 at the Apollinarian games the tragedian Diphilus inveighed insolently against our Pompeius
The ludi Apollinares, games in honour of Apollo held in July. At them the actor Diphilus pointedly aimed lines of his tragedy at Pompey, and the audience seized on them as anti-Pompeian; Cicero quotes the verses ("By our misery you are great," etc.) as proof of the public mood.
- Ad Atticum 16.4 §1 the beast-hunt scheduled for the day after the Apollinarian games
The Ludi Apollinares, games in honour of Apollo held each July and organized by the urban praetor; in 44 BC they fell to Brutus, who staged them while in absence, watching anxiously how the crowd would respond.
- Brutus §78 games for Apollo
The Ludi Apollinares, annual games in honour of Apollo (from 212 BC), at which dramatic performances were staged; the presiding praetor produced the plays. Ennius's Thyestes was staged at such games.
- First Philippic §36 the Apollinarian games
The Ludi Apollinares of July 44 BC, given in absentia by the praetor Brutus; the crowd's applause was read as a demonstration for the liberator, not for the tragedian Accius whose play was staged.
- Tenth Philippic §7 the Games of Apollo
The Ludi Apollinares of July 44 BC, which Brutus as praetor was obliged to fund but staged in absentia. The crowd's applause for lines touching on liberty became a demonstration in his favour.
- Second Philippic §31 the Apollinarian games
The Ludi Apollinares, held each July in honour of Apollo, were presided over in 44 BC by the praetor Marcus Brutus; the crowd's enthusiasm was read as support for the tyrannicides.