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Area at the base of the theater was called?
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Orchestra.
-Place where the chorus changed and danced and actors performed. -No raised stage like Romans |
Acting
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How where the voices of actors amplified?
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By wearing large masks.
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Costume
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What did the actors wore?
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Oversized, well-padded costumes and boots with raised soles.
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Behind the orchestra was a painted wall called?
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Skene.
- Hence scenery. - actors enetered and exited there. |
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What were the theaters built on?
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Hillsides with inward slope
-Semicircle or ampitheater -Seats of Earth, stone, or wood in rows. |
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Sophocles first competed at what age and in what category?
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27. Tragedy category.
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Who did he defeat?
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The famous Aeschylus.
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When and where was he born?
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(496- 406 B.C.)
At Colonius |
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What kind of family and education did he have?
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Wealthy family.
- His traditional education was of music, dance, gymnastics. |
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Describe how he was and what was he skilled at?
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He was graceful and handsome.
Skilled at music and drama. |
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How was he active in public life?
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-He was general twice.
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How many tragedies did he wrote and how many remain today?
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-He wrote over 120 tragedies but only 7 remain.
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What was he great at understanding?
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-Human grief and suffering.
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What were plays written for?
What was in the orchestra? |
-For performance at festivals to honor the God Dionysis.
-An altar. |
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What were the festivals like?
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-Festivals lasted over many days.
-Competitions were held for prizes and awards. |
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Where and what time of day was Antigone performed?
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-Presented in stadium theater in daylight.
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Describe the chorus.
(how may men,spokesman, and their job?) |
-15 men.
-One spokesman(leader) called the Choragos. -Chorus reacted to events and interpreted meaning in chanted poems or odes. |
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Why were Greeks serious about theater?
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-Because it was like a religious ritual.
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Who acted in the plays?
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Only men actors.
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Actors and chanting chorus were like a what?
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-Like a stately Ritual.
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Mythical story of what?
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-Of the ill fated, Royal house of Thebes.
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What were the 3 plays based on this tragedy?
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-Oedipus the king
-Oedipus at Colonius -Antigone |
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Laios and
Iocaste |
-Laios was the grandson of Thebes founder
-King and father of Oedipus -His Queen and mother of Oedipus |
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What did Oracle proclaim about Laios?
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-That he will be slain by his son.
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What does Laios decide to do about the proclamation?
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-He binds the feet of his son and leaves him on a mountain?
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Who finds him and what does he name him?
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-Found by shepherds of King Polybus of Corinth and he adopts him and names him Oedipus.
-Raised by Polybus as his son/heir. |
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What does Oedipus mean?
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-Swollen foot.
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What does Oracle tell Oedipus?
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-That he will kill his father and marry his mother.
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What does he decide to do about that?
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-Attempts to avoid his fate and leaves Corinth.
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Who does he meet and what does he do to him?
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He meets a stranger (father) and argues with him and kills him.
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What appears at Thebes?
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-A sphinx.
-It is a winged monster with the body of a lion and the face of woman. |
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What does Sphinx do to travelers?
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-Travelers who can't answer the riddle are thrown to the sea.
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Who answers the riddle?
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-Oedipus answers the riddle and is welcomed as a savior by the Theban people.
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Who does he become and who does he marry?
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-He becomes king and they give him his mother for a wife.
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How many children do they have?
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-They have 4 children.
-2 girls, Antigone and Ismene. -2 boys, Eteocles and Polyneices. |
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What strikes the city?
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-Plague.
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Who does Oedipus send to talk to the Oracle regarding the cause of the plague?
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-He sends his mother's brother, Creon.
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What does the Oracle say?
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-He says that the reason there is a plague is because Thebe is unclean because Laios' murder lives there.
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What does Oedipus decide to do?
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-Oedipus promises to find the murderer.
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Who is Teiresias and what does he tell Oedipus?
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-He is a prophet and he advises him against finding himself. Oedipus finds the truth.
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What does Iocaste do when she finds out that she married her son?
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-She commits suicide.
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What does Oedipus do and what does he ask?
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-He blinds himself and asks to be exiled.
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What does Creon say to this?
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-He says that he must stay until the Gods' wills are revealed.
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What does Creon and the Elders do?
What do his sons do? |
-They exile Oedipus.
-His sons do nothing to help him stay. |
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What does Oedipus do after the exiled?
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-He wanders as a beggar with his daughters.
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Where does he die and what happens to his daughters?
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-He dies in Colonius and his daughters return to Thebes.
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Who rules after Oedipus dies?
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-Creon rules until Oedipus' sons want the throne.
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Who does Creon choose?
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-He chooses Eteocles and Polyneices is exiled.
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What does Polyneices do about this?
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-He storms Thebes with argives troops and the brothers kill each other.
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Who does Creon burry?
Who does Antigone burry? |
-He buries Eteocles but not Polyneices.
-Polyneices without the consent of Creon. |
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