1. Given the atmosphere of the Great Dionysia Festival, how would that change the audience’s response to the plays the watched?
2. Contrast theater of today with Greek Theater.
3. Even though the gods required the Agamemnon to sacrifice of Iphigenia, what was Clytemnestra’s reaction to this event?
4. What questions do you think the play Agamemnon would have let the audience ponder? How does this speak to morality? What role do the gods play in these stories?
5. According to the play Oedipus the King, how “free” are we to determine our own fate?
6. What is Oedipus’ error in judgment?
7. What themes do you see running through all of the major plays we have looked
2. Contrast theater of today with Greek Theater.
3. Even though the gods required the Agamemnon to sacrifice of Iphigenia, what was Clytemnestra’s reaction to this event?
4. What questions do you think the play Agamemnon would have let the audience ponder? How does this speak to morality? What role do the gods play in these stories?
5. According to the play Oedipus the King, how “free” are we to determine our own fate?
6. What is Oedipus’ error in judgment?
7. What themes do you see running through all of the major plays we have looked