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| three tragedies by the same playwrite done in the same day to tell one story |
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| originally 12 people, then 15. Male, fancy dress, masks over whole head and speak in unison. |
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| teacher; teaching the chorus their lines line by line, wrote the play |
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| came up with the idea of having a man come from chorus and answer/converse with the chorus. Never ore than 3 actors. |
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| the viewing device, where the audience sits |
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| dancing place; stage for "chorus dancing" where people sing and dance. Altar in the middle. |
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| tent; where people are going to change between plays. Sometimes decorated and where scenery is from. |
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| had dionysus with Zeus, Hera appeared as an old woman working in house. Hera told her to tell Zeus to have sex with her the way she did with Hera. Semele asks and is destroyed with lightning leaving Dionysus. Zeus put him in his thigh until he was mature. |
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| crazy lady, woman worshippers of dionysus |
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| man with tail, snub nose and pointed ears. Chases maenads. |
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| chorus leader; rich person who pays for the chorus |
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| service; a method of taxation to the general public |
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| government money that will pay for poor citizens to go to the show |
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| Pathos - suffering, mathos - learning; knowledge through suffering |
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| whatever performance proceeds parodos |
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| chorus songs between episodes |
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| road out, path offstage, exit song of chorus |
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| one line at a time dialogue, back and forth |
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| hill of ares, mars hill; where a council was held that specialized in murder |
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| with a capitol A is the acropolis of Athens, high point of the city |
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| stain; blood stain after killing someone, typically a wrongful death accidental or intentional killing outside of war |
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| greek word for the fury (furies) |
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| tearing of animals limb from limb |
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| - cathonian earth diety - literal; earth goddesses. Fertility, protection of young and guard from civil strife - furies new job |
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| Don't take stories literally but as more of a symbol |
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| mixing different religions together |
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| Crazy woman worshippers of Dionysus |
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| – 3 days, 4 plays perday, 3 play wrights w/ 4 plays each (3 tragedies 1 satyr) play |
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| – engraving of stories of the roof of a temple when looking up from the inside |
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| – place in roof of the temple where sculptures of stories were placed |
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| (460-425) – Homeric math – not a large number of men to Trojan war |
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| (570-480 BC) – god in plays shouldn’t be spoken of in battles; they are unreal, immoral gods |
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| (4th, 3rd, CE BC) – royalty stories, became gods; myths giving distorions of history |
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| (1854-1941) – The Cambridge School – Fertility religions, gods are like life and death |
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| -The Cambridge School – Ritual -> myth, religious ritulas have, myth explains why ritual |
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| – (342-271 BC) – go after worldly pleasure |
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