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| What was key to Greek Theater? |
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| The festivals were a communal expression of what? And it employed what? |
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| Religious belief and it employed music, dance, and drama. |
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| Dionysos was the god of what? They had what kind of dance festivals for him that turned into what? |
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| Dionysos was the god of sex, wine, and festivities. They had dytherambic dance festivals that turned into carefully structured dramatic event. |
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| What was the major dramatic form of the time (Greek Classicism)? |
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| Tragedy was the major dramatic form of the time |
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| What were the parts of the plays, or tragedies? |
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| They consisted of a prologue, a parados, and exodus, or conclusion |
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| There were how many annual religious festivals that theatre played a major role in? Name them. |
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there were 3:
The City of Dionysia - festival of tragedy
The Rustic Dionysia and
The Lenaea - both of which were festivals of comedy |
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| Contests were held at the festivals. Who were the 3 most prominent winners? |
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| Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. |
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| How many actors did plays originally have? |
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| List Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy in order of importance |
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| Plot, Character, Thought, Diction, Music, and Spectacle. |
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| What are the parts of plot? |
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| Beginning (exposition), a middle (complication), and an end (denouement) |
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| Characters learn about themselves and others. |
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| Alerts the audience of future action. |
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| Creates tension and make characters grow |
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| How does Aristotle view tragedy? |
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| As a form of drama in which a protagonist goes through a significant struggle which ends in disaster. Always a heroic character, who gains a moral victory even in physical defeat. Tragedy is a positive experience, which evokes a catharsis, or purging, of pity and fear in the audience. |
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| What was Agamemnon about? What questions does it raise? |
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It warms that success and wealth are insufficient without goodness. Aeschylus poses questions such as:
How responsible are we for our own actions?
How subject are we for our own actions? |
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| What is Aeschylus credited with? |
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| The addition of a second actor. |
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| Are Aeschylus' characters types or individuals? |
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| They emerge larger than life as types rather than individuals. |
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| What is Prometheus about? |
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| Prometheus frustrated the plans of Zeus by giving fire to a race of mortals whom Zeus sought to destroy. |
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| How did Aeschylus view the gods? |
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| Gods were seen as less than bright. |
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| What was the point of the play Prometheus? |
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| It said that with reason, application, and vision, human beings can defy the gods and win. |
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| What was the main device employed in Prometheus? |
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| Dialogue as the main character is chained to a rock during the whole play. |
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| The background building where costumes and other things were stored. It was connected to the main stage. |
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| Who's contributions to dramaturgy and production make him, if not the greatest writer, then certainly the most important person in Western theatre history? |
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| Who was considered the creator of tragedy? |
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| Battles are infused in his works, which illuminates the miseries - not the glories of war. |
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| How does Aeschylus treat history? |
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| He treats history loosely |
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| What viewpoint does Aeschylus have? |
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| He has a classic view point |
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| What does Aeschylus focus on? |
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| He focuses on intellect as opposed to emotion. |
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| What style does Aeschylus write in? |
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| He writes in an exalted style, using vocabulary clearly linked to the epic and lyric tradition of Homer. |
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| Who wrote Oedipus the King? |
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| Sophocles' plots and characterizations illustrate a tend toward what? |
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| Increasing realism. However the move toward realism did not involve any illusion of reality on stage. |
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| What was Oedipus the King about? |
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What kind of play was Oedipus the king?
And what made it that? |
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| Tragedy. His tragedy lies in the discovery of his guilt, rather than the heinous act themselves. |
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| What was the hamartia, or tragic flaw, in Oedipus the King? |
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| Oedipus' hamartia is excessive pride, or hubris. Ir drives him to pursue the truth. |
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| What questions does Oedipus raise? |
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| It asks if we can we control our own destinies? |
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What device does Sophocles employ in the dialogue of Oedipus the King?
What is its effect? |
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the use of stichomythia - dialogue involving a dispute presented in alternating lines.
It heightens the emotional intensity of a scene.
It can easily develop into a pun this way. |
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| While Sophocles was a less formal poet than Aeschylus, he used more what? |
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| He used more human themes and more complex plots than Aeschylus |
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| Classic Greek theatre consisted mostly of discussion and narration as opposed to what? |
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| Was blood ever shed on stage in classical Greek theatre? |
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| Is Euripides plays evolve classicism or realism? What does his plays deal with mostly? |
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| His plays carry realism further than any other Greek tragedies and deals more with psychological probing and individual emotions that with great events. |
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| Was Euripides' language poetic and formal? |
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| His language was poetic, but much less formal than his predecessors' language. |
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| Euripides plays with what in his productions? |
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| What does Euripides question? |
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| The religion of the time. |
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| It depicts the bitter tragedy of the interrelationship between those who rule and those who obey. It goes along with the troubles of the times. |
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What is the story of Hecuba?
What does the chorus do? |
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Hecuba, the wife of Priam, King of troy, whose city has fallen to the Greeks, has her children murdered. She seeks the help of the Greek King, Agamemnon, but receives only pity and questions.
The chorus condemns the tragic waste of war and questions the logic of imperialism. |
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| Who does Euripides attack in his play Hecuba? What does he say about them? |
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| He attacks the gods themselves. He says that even if they exist, their justice lies so far removed from humans that it has no relevance. |
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| What does The Bacchae represent? |
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| It reflects the changing Athenian spirit and dissatisfaction with contemporary events. |
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| Why was Euripides not particularly popular in his time? |
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| Perhaps because of his less idealistic, less formal, and less conventional treatment of dramatic themes and characters. His plays are the most popular of Greek Tragedies today though. |
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| What does Euripides play represent, classicism or realism, intellect or emotion? |
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| They represent realism and emotion. |
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| Explain tragic costumes? Who wore them? |
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| They were larger than life costumes. Always men |
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| thick-soled boots, padded robes, bright colors. |
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| Wiglike protrusions on top of masks that made characters look even taller. |
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| Athenians had a great love of this? |
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| What kind of plays did Aristophanes write? |
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| He wrote sophisticated, biting satire - rather obscene. |
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| What was lysistrata about? |
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| It was about a strike by the women of Athens who vow to withhold sex from their husbands until the authorities rid the city of war and warmongers. |
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| Why aren't Euripides plays as funny to us now as they originally were? |
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| Because we aren't familiar with the personal and political targets of his plays. |
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| During what period did comedy become the staple of theatrical fare? |
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| During the Hellenistic period. |
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| Who are the only comedies we have written by? |
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| What are the characteristics of Menander's plays? |
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| Very bawdy, superficial themes (much like 21st century), uses almost no satire, unlike Aristophanes, religion played no role and the chorus had completely disappeared. |
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| What did Aeschylus write? |
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| Agamemnon, and Prometheus |
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| What did Sophocles write? |
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| What did Euripides write? |
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| What did Aristophanes write? |
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