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- born 496 BC
- son of wealthy merchant
- best traditional education
- known for grace and beauty
- twice elected to high military office
- lived to 90 in period of Athenian glory |
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| Sophocles Accomplishments |
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- defeated Aeschylus at age 28 in dramatic competition
- won first prize 20 times
- great playwright of Athens Golden Age |
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- wrote more than 100 plays
- first to add a third actor
- abolished trilogic form
- single play tragedy forced him to pack action into shorter form
- shorted form offered greate dramatic possibility |
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- transformed tragedy
- Decisions and fates of individuals became major themes and interests of Greek tragedy |
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- Oedipus Trilogy
Antigone, Electra, Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus the King |
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- born in 525 BC near Athens
- fought against Persians at Marathon, Salamis, and maybe Plataea
- made trips to Sicily where he died |
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| Aeschylus Accomplishments |
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- founder of Greek tragedy
- introduced the second actor
- tried to involve chorus directly in action of the play |
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- wrote about 90 plays
- plays in form of trilogies with a common theme
- each trilogy followed by a satyr drama |
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- low comedy involving mythological hero
- chorus of satyrs |
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| - low comedy consists of silly, slapstick physicality, crude pratfalls, violence, scatology, and bodily humor rather than clever dialogue or banter. |
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- born in 406 BC
- popular in his own time
- wrote in 5th century period of enormous intellectual discovery
- had great influence on Roman drama |
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- great influence on Roman drama
- represent new moral, social, & political movements in Athens
- more recent influence on German and Frence drama |
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- won first prize in the Attic drama festival in 442 BC
- only won 1st prize four times
- wrote of lives and problems or ordinary people rather than legendary figures |
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- comic writer
- mostly political satire highlighting
troubles of Athens
- Athens passed laws to stop writers from criticizing leaders led to 19 dry spell
- poked fun at Athens fondness for lawsuits |
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| - The Acharnians, The Knights, The Clouds, Lysistrata |
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Aristophanes
The Acharnians |
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- after Peloponnesian War and death of Pericles
- problems of people of Attica facing constant invasion |
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- play pokes fun at Athen's leader Cleon for his tyrannical leadership and alcoholic tendencies
- earned 1st place at festival
- Aristophanes had to play Cleon himself |
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| - play examines cultural figure of Socrates |
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| - anti-war play shows plight of women losing their sons to war and trying to bring peace |
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- tragedy
- comedy
- satyr plays |
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- traditionally concerns heroses, kings and gods
- suffer eventual failure usually due to tragic flaw
- formal language
- purpose: to purge soul of "fear and pity" |
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| catharsis (Aristotle's definition) |
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| - purge(get rid of) the sould of "fear and pity" |
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- concerns average people
- speak in everyday language
- experience misfortune |
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- originally performed at religious festivals
- Dinonysus was god of drama
- panel of judges awarded prizes
- festivals lasted over period of days |
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