The eisphora was expensive, too. It was imposed in cases of emergency - mostly after an outbreak of hostilities.
The theatre sponsor (choregos) had the job of getting together the theatre chorus; training them; paying them a wage; and costuming them. In tragedy the chorus numbered fifteen people; in comedy, twenty-four; there were fifty members in a dithyramb chorus and in a troupe of pyrrich dancers. The sponsor was always in competition for first prize with other sponsors.
The gymnasiarchos was responsible for training and paying a team of runners to take part in the Panathenaia, Hephaisteia and Prometheia torch-races.
The hestiarchos undertook to provide members of his own tribe with meals during the Great Panathenaia and the Great Dionysia.
The architheoros undertook leadership of diplomatic missions - to an oracle or to the Panhellenic festivals (at Olympia, Delphi, Nemea, the Isthmus [of Corinth], and Delos).
The hippotrophos undertook to manage and breed horses for the army, or for great festivals and racing.
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