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Who was Dionysus? |
The God of fertility and wine |
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What do myths about him relate too? |
Life cycle and seasonal changes |
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When was Dionysian worship introduced and what was its main purpose? |
Fertility
13th century bc |
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Dithyramb |
Hymns sung in unison by the chorus |
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What where the four festivals that where held each year? |
Rural Dionysia Lenaia Anthesteria City Dionysia |
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What was thespian drama? |
One actor and a chorus
Single actor used masks for various characters
Robes of Thespis: costumes |
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What 3 elements are necessary for drama? |
Actors Conflict Audience |
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Explain the city Dionysia festival? |
End of March
Attended by all citizens
Most plays written for this festival
Prep 10-11 months
3 tragic plays 1 comedy Play on each day but first day was the procession |
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What prizes where given? |
Best tragedy Best comedy Best production Best tragic action |
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Who financed the chorus |
The choregoi which were wealthy citizens |
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What did the chorus do between episodes? |
Gave lyrical commentary on the action taking place
Enlightened audience on deeper meanings
Provides relief from previous tensions |
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Where did the chorus always act? |
Around the altar of Dionysus |
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How many people where in the chorus |
50 then 12 then 15 |
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When did the chorus enter |
After the prologue |
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What where some of the choruses functions? |
They functioned as a character in the play, giving advice, asking questions, giving opinions, taking a role in plays dramatic action
Was the the ideal spectator, reacting at the right points
Helped set mood of the play or heighten the dramatic affect
Added movement , dance and song
Presented background of the story
Sang hymns to the gods |
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Explain what a tunic or chiton was? |
Their costumes. Ankle length Embroider, elaborate Allowed for freedom of movement and speech Colour of costume indicated status |
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What did the tragic actor where and how did he act? |
Static, God like creature, speaking and singing in harmony with the music
Dignified, , formal, upright voice
High headdress
Mask with distorted features
Thick soled boots
Padded clothing
Costume added divinity to role and enhanced stage presence
Colours indicated class
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Explain how the comic actor dressed and how he acted: |
Agile, acrobatic, versatile
Less hampering costume
Soft slippers
Flesh coloured tights
Short tunic
Heavily padded Large leather phallus Very exaggerated masks |
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What was the invention from Aeschylus and give the themes in his plays |
Introduced the second actor to allow face to face conflict
Reduced importance of chorus
Themes: Mans relationship with gods and universe Justice Morals |
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What was the invention from Euripedes and give the themes in his plays |
Reduced role of chorus
Turned to melodrama
Themes: Philosophical
Questioned Athenian ideals
Gods appeared petty and not effective |
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What was the invention from Sophocles and give the themes in his plays |
Introduced third actor Developed greater dramatic complexity
Themes: Human relationships Skillful climaxes Great observer of people |
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Skene |
Where actors could change roles
Formed background for play
Entrance for actors |
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Paraskenia |
Projecting side wings |
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Paradoi |
Entrances for chorus between paraskenia and auditorium into orchestra area |
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Exhaustra |
Where bodies where wheeled in afterwards |
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Machina |
How gods made appearances from roof of stage house , scene with crane like device |
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Periaktoi |
3 flats put together to make a triangle |
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Koilon |
Was the auditorium of the Greek theatre |
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Proedria |
Front rows in theatre reserved for priest |
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Orchestra |
Flat terrace where chorus performed |
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What are the six elements of tragedy according to Aristotle? |
Plot Characters Verbal expression Thought Visual adornment Song composition |
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What are the six elements of tragedy according to Aristotle? |
Plot Characters Verbal expression Thought Visual adornment Song composition |
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What is the best tragic plot? |
Single and complex |
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What are the six elements of tragedy according to Aristotle? |
Plot Characters Verbal expression Thought Visual adornment Song composition |
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What is the best tragic plot? |
Single and complex |
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What is a characteristic of plots in comedies? |
Double plot- opposite endings for good and bad- good rewarded and wicked are punished |
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What are the six elements of tragedy according to Aristotle? |
Plot Characters Verbal expression Thought Visual adornment Song composition |
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What is the best tragic plot? |
Single and complex |
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What is a characteristic of plots in comedies? |
Double plot- opposite endings for good and bad- good rewarded and wicked are punished |
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What do all plots have? |
Pathos - suffering |
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What are the six elements of tragedy according to Aristotle? |
Plot Characters Verbal expression Thought Visual adornment Song composition |
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What is the best tragic plot? |
Single and complex |
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What is a characteristic of plots in comedies? |
Double plot- opposite endings for good and bad- good rewarded and wicked are punished |
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What do all plots have? |
Pathos - suffering |
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What does a complex plot include? |
Reversal: (peripeteia) When a situation seems to be developing in one direction and suddenly reverses to another
Recognition : (anagnorisis) A change from ignorance to awareness of a bond of love or hate.
Tragic reversals and recognitions best arouses pity and fear
Suffering: (pathos) Destructive or painful act Sympathy, empathy |
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What are the six elements of tragedy according to Aristotle? |
Plot Characters Verbal expression Thought Visual adornment Song composition |
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What is the best tragic plot? |
Single and complex |
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What is a characteristic of plots in comedies? |
Double plot- opposite endings for good and bad- good rewarded and wicked are punished |
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What do all plots have? |
Pathos - suffering |
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What does a complex plot include? |
Reversal: (peripeteia) When a situation seems to be developing in one direction and suddenly reverses to another
Recognition : (anagnorisis) A change from ignorance to awareness of a bond of love or hate.
Tragic reversals and recognitions best arouses pity and fear
Suffering: (pathos) Destructive or painful act Sympathy, empathy |
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Catharsis |
Purification : Tragedy raises the emotions of pity and fear then purified or purges them |
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What are the six elements of tragedy according to Aristotle? |
Plot Characters Verbal expression Thought Visual adornment Song composition |
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What is the best tragic plot? |
Single and complex |
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What is a characteristic of plots in comedies? |
Double plot- opposite endings for good and bad- good rewarded and wicked are punished |
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What do all plots have? |
Pathos - suffering |
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What does a complex plot include? |
Reversal: (peripeteia) When a situation seems to be developing in one direction and suddenly reverses to another
Recognition : (anagnorisis) A change from ignorance to awareness of a bond of love or hate.
Tragic reversals and recognitions best arouses pity and fear
Suffering: (pathos) Destructive or painful act Sympathy, empathy |
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Catharsis |
Purification : Tragedy raises the emotions of pity and fear then purified or purges them |
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Satyres |
Half men half goats |
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What are the six elements of tragedy according to Aristotle? |
Plot Characters Verbal expression Thought Visual adornment Song composition |
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What is the best tragic plot? |
Single and complex |
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What is a characteristic of plots in comedies? |
Double plot- opposite endings for good and bad- good rewarded and wicked are punished |
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What do all plots have? |
Pathos - suffering |
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What does a complex plot include? |
Reversal: (peripeteia) When a situation seems to be developing in one direction and suddenly reverses to another
Recognition : (anagnorisis) A change from ignorance to awareness of a bond of love or hate.
Tragic reversals and recognitions best arouses pity and fear
Suffering: (pathos) Destructive or painful act Sympathy, empathy |
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Catharsis |
Purification : Tragedy raises the emotions of pity and fear then purified or purges them |
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Satyres |
Half men half goats |
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What festival die comedy start from? |
The Lenaia festival |
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What are the six elements of tragedy according to Aristotle? |
Plot Characters Verbal expression Thought Visual adornment Song composition |
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What is the best tragic plot? |
Single and complex |
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What is a characteristic of plots in comedies? |
Double plot- opposite endings for good and bad- good rewarded and wicked are punished |
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What do all plots have? |
Pathos - suffering |
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What does a complex plot include? |
Reversal: (peripeteia) When a situation seems to be developing in one direction and suddenly reverses to another
Recognition : (anagnorisis) A change from ignorance to awareness of a bond of love or hate.
Tragic reversals and recognitions best arouses pity and fear
Suffering: (pathos) Destructive or painful act Sympathy, empathy |
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Catharsis |
Purification : Tragedy raises the emotions of pity and fear then purified or purges them |
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Satyres |
Half men half goats |
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What festival die comedy start from? |
The Lenaia festival |
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What does comedy consist of? |
Old comedy: two parts; Agon, debate Komos, ending, merrymaking
New comedyb |
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What are the six elements of tragedy according to Aristotle? |
Plot Characters Verbal expression Thought Visual adornment Song composition |
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What is the best tragic plot? |
Single and complex |
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What is a characteristic of plots in comedies? |
Double plot- opposite endings for good and bad- good rewarded and wicked are punished |
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What do all plots have? |
Pathos - suffering |
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What does a complex plot include? |
Reversal: (peripeteia) When a situation seems to be developing in one direction and suddenly reverses to another
Recognition : (anagnorisis) A change from ignorance to awareness of a bond of love or hate.
Tragic reversals and recognitions best arouses pity and fear
Suffering: (pathos) Destructive or painful act Sympathy, empathy |
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Catharsis |
Purification : Tragedy raises the emotions of pity and fear then purified or purges them |
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Satyres |
Half men half goats |
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What festival die comedy start from? |
The Lenaia festival |
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What does comedy consist of? |
Old comedy: two parts; Agon, debate Komos, ending, merrymaking
New comedyb |
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Who was Aristophanes? |
Related to politics and social customs of the time
Titles: Birds, Frogs, Wasps
Themes: social satire, personal criticism, obscenity
40 plays, 11 survived
Old comedy
Chorus played satire |
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What are the six elements of tragedy according to Aristotle? |
Plot Characters Verbal expression Thought Visual adornment Song composition |
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Who was Menander? |
Comic dramatist
New comedy
Humorous
Politically inoffensive
Comic situations of urban life, domestic affairs
Plots tell of family matters, missing children, delayed marriages, mistaken identities
Romantic comedy of manners
Chorus disappeared |
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What is the best tragic plot? |
Single and complex |
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What is a characteristic of plots in comedies? |
Double plot- opposite endings for good and bad- good rewarded and wicked are punished |
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What do all plots have? |
Pathos - suffering |
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What does a complex plot include? |
Reversal: (peripeteia) When a situation seems to be developing in one direction and suddenly reverses to another
Recognition : (anagnorisis) A change from ignorance to awareness of a bond of love or hate.
Tragic reversals and recognitions best arouses pity and fear
Suffering: (pathos) Destructive or painful act Sympathy, empathy |
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Catharsis |
Purification : Tragedy raises the emotions of pity and fear then purified or purges them |
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Satyres |
Half men half goats |
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What festival die comedy start from? |
The Lenaia festival |
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What does comedy consist of? |
Old comedy: two parts; Agon, debate Komos, ending, merrymaking
New comedyb |
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Who was Aristophanes? |
Related to politics and social customs of the time
Titles: Birds, Frogs, Wasps
Themes: social satire, personal criticism, obscenity
40 plays, 11 survived
Old comedy
Chorus played satire |