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Greek drama originated from
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religious rituals
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greek dram honored
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dyonysus
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dyonysus was god of
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wine and fertility
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told story of a famous hero
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thespis
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thespian means
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actor or actress
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made 2nd speaking roll (antagonist & allowed a conflict to be there)
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Aeschylus
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actors in theatre of dionysus spoke from behind
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masks
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all actors were
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male
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allowed each actor to play several parts
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switching masks
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competed for prizes in tragedy and comedy
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incentive for playwrights
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featured ordinaty people as characters and had happy endings
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comedies
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comic versions of the themes of tragedies
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satyrs
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has serious treatment of mythic questions with heroic characters and unhappy endings
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tragedies
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greats of greek tragedy
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Aeschylus
Sophocles Euripides |
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Weakness, tragic fall
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hamartia
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strangely pleasurabe sense of emotional release we experience after watching a tragedy
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catharsis
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a true tragic hero is..
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highly renowned and prosperous
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tracig her is responsibel for :
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his or her actions due to some error or fatality
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arrogant pride, often tragic flaw of greek drama
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hubris
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sophocles lived :
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496-406bc
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sophocles record;
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24 1ST PRIZE 7 2nd prize
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sophocles added:
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a 3rd actor
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