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30 Cards in this Set
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Primitive rituals grew out of a desire to
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appease a deity.
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A primitive form of logical non sequitur resulted in what critics call
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contiguous association.
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the designation of speciallists to perform the ritual resulted in
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performers and audience.
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What were the purposes of primitive ritual?
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entertainment and pleasure, glorification of the deity of the tribal past, education, and influencing events.
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The abydos passion play concerns the myth of
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Osiris.
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Greek drama grew out of rituals performed in honor of
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Rameses.
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The father of drama, the one woh added the first actor to the ritual song and dance, was
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Thespis.
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The playwright who added a second actor was
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Aeschylus.
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The playwright who added a third actor was
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Sophocles.
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Sophocles reduced the chorus to
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fifteen.
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In a typical Greek theater, the audience sat in the
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theatron.
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The dressing rooms were in the
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skene.
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After each episode came a
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stanza.
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The first entrance of hte chorus occured in the
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parados.
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The principle that characerizes proper dramatic propriety is
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decorum.
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Agamemnon takes place in the city of
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Argos.
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Agamemnon has been away for
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ten years.
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When Agamemnon dies, he
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cries out.
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Cassandra's prophetic raving includes:
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what has happened in the House of Atreus, what will happen to her, what Orestes will do.
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Not appearing in the first place is
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Orestes.
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In the second play, recognition includes
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a lock of hair and foodprints.
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The chorus of the second play is
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actively engaged, even to the point of advising Cilissa.
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The second pay's title refers to the practice of pouring offerings of
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wine.
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The three parts of the Orestia are
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the Agamemnon, The Liberation Bearers, The Eumenides
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Symbolically, the poured offering of wine refers to:
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the lookd shed in three generations
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the concrete embodiment of the net-like trap is the bathrobe of
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Atreus
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The third play's title is a complimentary name for
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the Furies.
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Apollo's first arguement claimes that his oracles delivered by Pythia have as their ultimate source
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Zeus.
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The topical theme of the trilogy addresses the conflict between all of the following:
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sky gods and earth gods, old ways and new ways, Chthonian deities and Olympian deities.
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The chthonian principle is all of the following:
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feminine, vengefull, inconsistent, and insatisfactory.
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