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| When did Greek dramas emerge? |
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| What did Greek drama emerge from? |
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| What did Thespis do to make dramas more interesting? |
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| He pulled one actor from the chorus to give a speech |
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| A festival held to please Dionysus, God of wine where playwrights introduced their plays |
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| 4 plays; 3 tragedies, 1 satry |
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| An inappropriate play,meant to be funny. |
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| Why did actors wear large masks? |
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| To be seen from the audiance, amplifed voices, and people could play many roles. |
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| A painted wall behind which violence took place. A messenger would come out to tell the audiance what had just happened. |
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| Aristotle beleived that the perfect tragedy was: |
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| Acted more than narrated, should be in an artistic language, and it should arouse pity or fear in the audiance. |
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| What is the path of a tragic hero? |
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1. is high-up
2. has a tragic flaw
3. has a tragic downfall
4. realizes that their tragic flaw led to their downfall. |
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| Acts as the ideal audiance; tells the audiance what to feel, fills in the gaps in the story, is the voice of the community, shows the point of view of the author and helps transition from scene to scene. |
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"God from machine"
A machine made to lower people (gods) to the stage from above |
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| What is the Socratic Method? |
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| Seeking the truth by one's own inner lights. |
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| Essential for happiness, virtue cannot be taught, |
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| Plato's division of the soul: |
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| What are the three parts of the division of the soul? |
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| Appetites, spirit and mind |
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| Made of desires and pleasure that can often be in conflict |
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| The hot-blooded part of the soul; the part that gets angry when justice is undone. |
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| The conscious part of the soul; thinks and analyzes things. |
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| What are the three clases of the perfect city-state? |
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Producers (workers)
Auxiliaries (warriors)
Philosopher kings
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| What did Plato describe philosophers as? |
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| People who wanted to attain all knowledge; have access to the forms |
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- Epistemological, metaphysical, moral and semantical |
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| How is knowledge possible (learning from one's mistakes) |
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What is real?
- Everything is changing
- Supports an alternate paradigm
- Where your mind goes when you are sleeping, dreaming, etc. |
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Are there objective moral truths?
(is there a right or wrong?) |
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What is it we grasp when we understand simething?
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| Plato's Allegory of the cave: |
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Something more real than what we see here.
We are the common people and the people outside of the cave are philosophers. |
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| Happiness is the supreme goal of one's life |
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| What are the three kinds of friendship? |
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Utility: a friendship of ease
Pleasure: where both parties get something out of it.
Virtue: the best kind of friendship; comes with time. |
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