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12 Cards in this Set
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Where did artists get their inspiration from?
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-ancient texts, productions based on them,
-Oral stories |
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How do we, as modern viewers, interpret visual media?
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-Inscription
-Attributes -Gods are most often identified this way -Heracles: wooden club and lion skin -Strange (and/or) unique adversary -Perseus and Medusa -Theseus and the Minotaur -Normal elements in odd combination -Odysseyus fleeing under a giant ram -Context w/in the myth cycle |
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Are there any absolutes?
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There are no absolutes
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Who are the three Athenian tragedians and when did they live?
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-Aeschylus
525-456 B.C.E. -Sophocles 496-406 B.C.E. -Euripides 485-406 B.C.E. |
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Why do we think – goat song – is the root of tragedy?
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-tragoida
-because goats were associated with the goD Dionysus, at whose festival goats were sacrificed. So tragedies may have been performed at this festival while goats were slaughtered. |
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What role does Dionysus play in ancient tragedy?
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-According to Aristotle’s Poetics…
-tragedy born from dithyrambs -hymns to Dionysus |
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What is a dithyramb and why is it important for the development of ancient tragedy?
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-A hymn to the god Dionysius
-Choruses of 15 or more members |
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What is the City Dionysia and why is it important to our understanding of ancient tragedy?
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Most tragedies were performed there.
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Know the key terms: theatron, skene, orchestra, and mechane.
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orchestra – “dancing place”
theatron – “viewing area” skene – “tent” mechane – “device” |
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Why is it so difficult to distinguish between history and myth?
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-both are stories.
-Sharing between the two makes it difficult to discern the differences |
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Who is Heinrich Schliemann?
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-German banker who funded and performed some earlier digs of Troy
-proponent of the idea that you could find the reality of myth in and with archaeology |
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Was there only one Troy?
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No, there were many layers to the physical site and it exists in the imagination of writers (like Hogwarts)
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