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City Dionysia
-springtime festival in honour of Dionysus the god of wine and drama |
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-Athenian citizen
-typically upper class
-not professional in sense that writing plays was his primary or only profession |
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| -three poets each year would present three tragedies and a satyr play |
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Term Tragedy to the Athenians |
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| -a tragedy was simply the kind of highly formal, elaborate play produced at the City Dionysia each year |
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-stories for the plays was almost exclusively taken from trad myths
-2 primary subjects: family and war
-changes were often made to relate to Athenian concerns and interests
-tragedian sought to validate the ethical norms of the polis by dramatizing consequences of transgression of those norms |
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-all male citizens
-each dramatist was allowed only 3 actors with speaking parts
3 actor rule- only three speaking characters on stage at one time (not including the chorus) |
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-12 or 15 male citizens
-sing and dance
-choral songs btwn acts of play
-play a particular group of people in the play (ex. old men who advise the leader) |
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Performance Space:mechane |
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-where gods appeared
-device that hoised the actor up over the stage |
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Performance Space: orchestra |
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| -dancing space where the chorus performed |
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Performance Space: parodos |
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-path leading on either side of the performance space down to the orchestra
-chorus entered and exited on this path |
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Performance Space:theatron |
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-massively attended
-audience reflected both the collective of the state as a whole, while reflecting the dominance of citizens (male adults)
-majority of audience would have been male citizens
-slaves and children could and did attend
-some debate over whether women were allowed to attend; most likely they did in smaller number |
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