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Lecture 3 (Unit 3)
Greek Theatre, Religion, and Tragedy
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Classics
Undergraduate 1
11/02/2015

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Tragic performance of plays were ways that enforced...
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Religious values
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The book "Poetics" was written by?
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Aristotle
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Choral hymns sung in honour of...
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Dionysus
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Hymns were...
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Myths of the gods sung or songs of praise
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"Hypokrites" became one member of the chorus known as the...
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Interpreter
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The "Hypokrites"/Interpreter explained...
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What the chorus was singing about
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The word hypocrite comes from...
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"Hypokrites"
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The word "tragoidoi" has something to do with...
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'Goat-singers'
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When did the Lenaea festival take place?
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January/February
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When did the Anthesteria festival take place?
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February/March
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In Ancient Greece, the harvest happened in...
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January and February
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The book "Poetics" described...
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The different types of literature the Greeks were writing
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The greatest of the festivals were known as the...
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Dionysia festivals
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The people involved in performing tragedies wore...
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Masks
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Masks were used to show that the people wearing them...
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Represented someone else
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Origin of mask is most likely...
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Religious
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The mask took away...
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Personal identity and made you part of a group
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All Greek tragedies are in honour of the god...
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Dionysus
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Greek tragedy (5th century) allowed a maximum of how many speaking characters on the stage at a time?
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Three
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Features of tragedy included...
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Chorus, actor, and gods/mortals
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Aristophanes believed that when you laugh, you are more likely to...
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Listen
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In comedy, the instruction goes through...
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Humor
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In tragedy, the instruction goes through...
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Pity
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What type of spaces were theatres?
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Religious spaces
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Circle area of theatre was called...
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The orchestra
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Theatre means...
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"The place from which you watch"
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If citizen class men did not attend all tragedy performances, they would be considered to be...
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'Unpolitical'
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When was the temple burned?
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499 BC
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'Eleutherius' means...
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"The one who sets you free, the liberator"
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The master of ceremonies was also...
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The official priest of Dionysus
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The most well preserved theatre was the theatre of...
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Epidauros
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The most important part of the masks were...
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The mouths so everyone could hear what the person was saying
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Two major playwrights were...
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Sophocles and Euripides
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Sophocles lived from...
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495-406 BC (Classical Age)
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Hubris means...
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"Pride in the face of the gods"
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Peripeteia means...
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"A change from good to bad"
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Nemesis means...
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"Thhe just retribution/reward"
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Euripides lived from...
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480-406 BC
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What was Euripides' playwright about?
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Change and decline
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Euripides' playwright challenged...
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The religious, social, and political values of the time
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Oedipus and Jocasta (Thebes) were characters in the play...
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Oedipus Tyrannus
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Who wrote Oedipus Tyrannus?
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Sophocles
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The four features of an Ancient Greek theatre were...
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Theatron, Orchestra, Scene, and Parados. In other words; the watching area, the dancing area, the scene, and the entrances.
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Sophocles' 'Classical' playwright promoted the values of...
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Justice, democracy, civilization, control, excellence, and beauty
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