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Boys left home in Sparta...
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...at age 7 to start military training
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Spartan military training lasted...
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13 years
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Spartans were considered soldiers at age...
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20
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Spartan men's living conditions...
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...were only with men from age 20 to 30, and if married at 30, one could live with his wife.
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Spartans were freed from military service at age...
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60
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Spartan women started education at age...
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7
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Spartan women were assigned a husband at age...
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18
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Spartan women's main objectives were to...
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make babies
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The government in Athens was...
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a limited democracy in which only males participated
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Athenian men were educated in...
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reading, writing, poetry, military training, rhetoric
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Were women educated too, in Athens?
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Yes
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Women in Athens only left homes for what reasons?
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Religious purposes
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What year and where were the Olympics first held?
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700 B.C. in Athens
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What god were the Olympics in honor of?
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Zeus
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What sports were originally in the Olympics?
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Boxing, wrestling, pancratium, horse racing, and the panthelon
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How long did the Olympics usually last?
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5 days
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Myth
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A story used to explain a culture's view of the universe whose author is unknown
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What must a myth discuss?
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Moral and social issues or the relationship between man and the gods
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What is the literal meaning of a tragedy? Why?
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Goat song. They would sacrifice goats before performing, or win a goat if their play was the best.
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What god were tragedies performed for?
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Dionysus
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What are never depicted, yet reported in tragedies?
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Sex and violence
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What is the conflict of a tragedy?
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Protagonist and a superior force.
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What is considered a superior force?
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God, circumstance, destiny, society
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Does it ever end well for the main character?
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No.
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Parados
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passageway that actors make entrances and exits
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The orchestra
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Where the choir would be (below stage pit area)
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The skene
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The only part of the stage with a roof- to depict the gods
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Theatron
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Where the audience sits. It's a semi-circle going up a hill
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Why did they wear masks?
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To show bigger facial expressions, and gender
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Why did they wear robes?
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To indicate class
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Prologue
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Introduction with needed background information (1)
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Parados (scene)
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First choral ode (2)
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The odes
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follow each scene. the chorus recaps and gives their own response (3)
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The stroph
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When the chorus moves from right to left singing (part of 3/The Odes)
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The antistroph
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When the chorus moves left to right singing (part of 3)
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First scene
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introduces the conflict (4)
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Paen
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A hymn praising god (after scene 5)
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Exodus
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The final scene
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Who was Aristotle a student of?
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Plato
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Who did Aristotle teach?
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Alexander the Great
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What did Aristotle divide his thinking into?
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Ethics, physics, and logic
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What did Aristotle consider should be a tragedy?
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an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude
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What does Aristotle believe about plots?
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Complex plots are better than simple plots
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What did Aristotle believe must be included in a tragedy?
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suffering
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Where does Aristotle believe the audience's pity and fear should come from?
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The events- not what is seen
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What did Aristotle believe were the characteristics of a tragic hero?
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Not all good and not all bad; Must be of noble class or highly renowned; Have a tragic flaw; Recognize their error and accept the consequences; Arouses pity and fear in the audience
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