The corpus record

θέ-ᾱμα

theama · τό

sight, spectacle

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Where it lives

Hiero 3 · 5.03/10k
Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
Symposium 2 · 2.1/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Enneads 26 · 1.23/10k
Economics 2 · 1.12/10k
On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

sight, spectacle, wonders of the world

sight, spectacle, Semon. 7.67, A. Pr. 306, E. Supp. 783, Ar. Av. 1716, etc.; εἴ τις ὀρχοῖτʼ εὖ, θέαμʼ ἦν Pl.Com. 130; opp. μάθημα, Th. 2.39; freq. of a sight which gives pleasure, θεάματα καὶ ἀκροάματα ἥδιστα παρέχεις X. Smp. 2.2, cf. 7.5; ὀρχήσεις καὶ θεάματα Phld. Mus. p.26 K.; ἐμπλήσθητε τοῦ καλοῦ θ. Pl. R. 440a; but also θ. δυσθέατον A. Pr. 69, cf. S. Aj. 992; ἑπτὰ θ. the seven wonders of the world, Str. 14.2.5, Plu. Sollert. 2.983e: sg., of a marvellously engraved ring, Gal. UP 17.1.

In the wild

θέαμα · theama Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 306–308
θέαμα · theama Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 69
θέαμα · theama Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1099a (DIORISIS sentence 217)
θέαμα · theama Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 375)
θέαμα · theama Epictetus, Discourses 2.19 (DIORISIS sentence 3135)
θεάματος · theamatos Epictetus, Discourses 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3784)

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Where it came from

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