Greek Theater Research Paper

Imagine this, you are an elegant eagle flying over ancient Athens around 500 B.C. While your cutting though the winds you look down to see a crowd forming around to what seems like a point of attention. To find out what is going on, you dive down to hear laughs, claps, cheers, and weeps. Very bewildered, you are. Well, you're in luck, in this reading you will be taken through the background, the performance, and the experiences you would’ve enjoyed of what you just discovered: Athenian Theater.
At the beginning of Greek history, they held all kinds of festivals to honor their gods. The God, Dionysus, was honored by the festival called the City of Dionysia in the spring. The festivities were filled with drunken men sing, dancing, dressing up in goat skins, and competing with one another to see who could put on the best show (“Festivals and Theaters” n.pag). With this tradition rapidly spreading awards were handed out to the best performances. Hence, the Athenian theatre was born. In the blink of an eye, mass theaters were …show more content…
The people in this time period believed that the god’s have already decided all of their fate and there was no way of changing it. So to express their beliefs, the all drama’s presented a similar issue: a person's fate has already been decided in advance by the gods, and that there is no way an individual can avoid this fate. (“Origins of Greek Theater” n.pag.).
These plays and tragedies played a huge role in spreading and embracing the ancient Athenian culture. Still to this day the art of these performances still thrives in schools and in modern dramas. The Greek style will forever be the backbones to any play and tragedy. So now, as you flap your wings and soar away, take a look around you and see the Greek culture that trickled down in history all around you. Like the culture needs it’s drama, you need the