• City Dionysia – The City of Dionysia, one of if no the most historically famous festivals took place every spring in Athens. The reason for this is because Spring was the best time for sailing. People would travel from all over to join in on the festivities and watch the competitions. It included processions, sacrifices, musical and dramatic performances. The dramatic performances would include three tragedies, a satyr play and choral poetry. The tragedy competition would last three days and would focus solely on one poet a day. Five judges would make the decision, which was often influence by the audience.
• Catharsis – Catharsis, at least as it seems in these plays, is a feeling of peace that comes after some sort of conflict or strain. …show more content…
Jokasta, Oidipous’ queen is a surprisingly important character in King Oidipous even though her part isn’t very big. Although Jokasta is famous for killing herself she is also important to Oidipous’ doom because she is the one who helps him realize what he’s done. A line Jokasta says that is often overlooked, “What should a human fear, who is in fortune’s power and can’t know clearly what’s to come?” is a fairly wise statement (pg. 130, lines 977-8). She is a character that does everything in her will power to help Oidipous but they eventually both discover the truth.
• Apollo – The god that is overseer of the curse of Oidipous. Although he never actually is a character in any of the tragic plays, he does communicate through Teiresias. Apollo is always called when the the act of prayer is mentioned. An example of this in in King Oidipous, where Jokasta calls apon Apollo to release Oidipous from his curse. The passage reads, “I’ve come to supplicate you with these prayers—for you are nearest, Lykeian Apollo—so that you may bring us some release untainted by a curse.” Apollo is sort of the behinds the scene overseeing ruler/decider of …show more content…
He wrote it around 467 B.C., which is the earliest of the four plays: King Oidipous, Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, and Oidipous at Colonus. He won first price at the festival of the City of Dionysia for his tragedy Seven Against Thebes. It uses the chorus a lot more than Sophocles’ three plays and also has longer chunks of dialogue. People in those days were willing to watch these types of plays all day because it was their only form of entertainment.
• Eteocles – Eteocles, a character most present in Aeschylus’s tragedy Seven Against Thebes, is a great example, like Kreon, of the problems with ruling Thebes. After his father Oidipous is banished from Thebes, both he and his brother Polyneices are put in charge to rule. Kreon oddly enough at the same time is also helping rule. Eteocles and his brother become obsessed with wanting to rule and when Polyneices forms an army to take over the thrown they both end up killing each other.
• Argives – Argives are basically the enemy of Thebes in The Seven Against Thebes. They are the army that is led by Eteocles’ brother Polyneices to attack Thebes. There attempt eventually leads to the deaths of both brothers which can be deemed unsuccessful to say the least. They do play a big character in the sense that if Polyneices was not able to get them to help him fight than probably neither of the brothers would have
• Catharsis – Catharsis, at least as it seems in these plays, is a feeling of peace that comes after some sort of conflict or strain. …show more content…
Jokasta, Oidipous’ queen is a surprisingly important character in King Oidipous even though her part isn’t very big. Although Jokasta is famous for killing herself she is also important to Oidipous’ doom because she is the one who helps him realize what he’s done. A line Jokasta says that is often overlooked, “What should a human fear, who is in fortune’s power and can’t know clearly what’s to come?” is a fairly wise statement (pg. 130, lines 977-8). She is a character that does everything in her will power to help Oidipous but they eventually both discover the truth.
• Apollo – The god that is overseer of the curse of Oidipous. Although he never actually is a character in any of the tragic plays, he does communicate through Teiresias. Apollo is always called when the the act of prayer is mentioned. An example of this in in King Oidipous, where Jokasta calls apon Apollo to release Oidipous from his curse. The passage reads, “I’ve come to supplicate you with these prayers—for you are nearest, Lykeian Apollo—so that you may bring us some release untainted by a curse.” Apollo is sort of the behinds the scene overseeing ruler/decider of …show more content…
He wrote it around 467 B.C., which is the earliest of the four plays: King Oidipous, Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, and Oidipous at Colonus. He won first price at the festival of the City of Dionysia for his tragedy Seven Against Thebes. It uses the chorus a lot more than Sophocles’ three plays and also has longer chunks of dialogue. People in those days were willing to watch these types of plays all day because it was their only form of entertainment.
• Eteocles – Eteocles, a character most present in Aeschylus’s tragedy Seven Against Thebes, is a great example, like Kreon, of the problems with ruling Thebes. After his father Oidipous is banished from Thebes, both he and his brother Polyneices are put in charge to rule. Kreon oddly enough at the same time is also helping rule. Eteocles and his brother become obsessed with wanting to rule and when Polyneices forms an army to take over the thrown they both end up killing each other.
• Argives – Argives are basically the enemy of Thebes in The Seven Against Thebes. They are the army that is led by Eteocles’ brother Polyneices to attack Thebes. There attempt eventually leads to the deaths of both brothers which can be deemed unsuccessful to say the least. They do play a big character in the sense that if Polyneices was not able to get them to help him fight than probably neither of the brothers would have