Ancient Greek Theatre Flashcards
Name for hymens sung in honor for Dionysus
Dithyramb
Meaning of Dionysus
Twice born (goat or bull)
Tragedy meaning
Goat Song
Festivals for Dionysus
Lenea (January). It is to celebrate merrymaking
City Dionysia held in athens (march/april)
Rural Dionysia (midwinter)
fertility
Principles:
characters diologue plot genre themes symbols costume structure conflict
The days of city Dionysia
1: major procession
2: Dithyrambic contests
3: competition for 5 comic playwrights
4-6: Competition for 3 tragic plays
7: Judging and awarding of prizes (goat/bull)
Name of seats
Theatron
Name of stage
Orchestra
Name of entrance
Parados
Name of backstage
Skene
name of center of stage
Altar
Sides of Skene, elaborat facade and second story
Paraskenia
Proskenion
Episkenion
Tools Used in Staging
3 doors from skene
Pinake (scenic pannels)
Machina: crane-like enterance of gods
Periaktoi (piramid)
What the bodies are displayed on afterwards
Eccyclema (circle-cycle)
Exhaustra
(rectangle-exauste-bed)
What did the mask do (importaint stuff)
-Gave wearer spirutual power (connection to the gods)
-Allowed actor to play many roles
-Exaggerated features (audience far away)
Facts about the masks
Larger than the actors head
-had to be changed for each big emotion
Comic Elements
Satire
Impersonation
Verbal humor (puns)
Visual humour (a kind of slapstick????)
Parody
situation
Comedy Costume
Mask
onkos
Chiton (knee length)
leather phallus
chlamys (short cape)
Padded pants and tunic
sandles
Tragedy Costume
mask
onkos
Purple(sometimes)
Chiton (ankle length)
Himation (long robe) (him-atone cause tragedy has consequences)
Korthini (platforms)
