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Greek Drama/Literature Flashcards

1
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Performed at festivals dedicated to the god

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Dionysus

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2
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Drama includes

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Tragedy AND Comedy

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3
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Festivals lasted

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5-7 days

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4
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How many types of plays were performed?

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3

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5
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Greek heroes and gods

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Tragedies

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Men vs. Women

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Comedies

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Mocked human vice & folly; often political

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Satires

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3 full plays were performed in

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1 day

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9
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Winning actors and playwrites received

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Prizes

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10
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Costuming was done carefully because

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Audience members needed to see them

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11
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Costumes

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Padded

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12
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How high were the heels in Greek costumes?

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8 inches

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13
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Costumes depicted

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Mood of characters

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14
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Darker clothing

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Tragedy

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15
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Lighter clothing

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Comedy

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16
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Stage area shape

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Semi-circular space at bottom of a hill

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17
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Slope of hill produced

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Seating areas for viewers

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18
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Theaters held up to

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14,000 spectators

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19
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Violence and death took place

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Off stage - reported by a character

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20
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Physical and bawdy

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Greek comedy

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21
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Use of sexual situations, role reversal, innuendos, puns, elaborate and exaggerated costuming

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Greek comedy

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22
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This branch of Greek drama is often not performed today because modern audiences are more reserved

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Greek Comedy

23
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Began literary tradition - blind

24
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Credited with writing the Iliad and the Odyssey

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First person to appear onstage as an actor

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Introduced 1st principal actor in addition to the chorus

27
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Initiated the use of masks in Greek drama

28
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Won the 1st dramatic competition in 534 BC

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First of the three great Classical tragedy writers

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Introduced 2nd actor which made dialogue possible

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Believed justice would always win in the end

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Major trilogies

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The Orestaias: Agememnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides

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Strange death involving turtle and eagle

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Second of the great Classical tragedists

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Won drama competition 21 times

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Main focus of plays deal with the consequences of people’s actions

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Introduced 3rd character onstage

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Believes that man cannot escape his Fate

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Lived past the age of 90

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Most famous trilogy

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Oedipus Rex - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone

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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves

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3rd of the great Classical tragedists

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Won Drama competition 5 times

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Uses psychological reasoning with characters - tries to explain actions of characters, especially Medea

45
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Considered 1st feminist playwrite and saw himself as a misunderstood writer

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Famous during his lifetime, but not popular

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Tried to emphasize people as hey really were, not as they should b

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Used deus ex machina - the sudden intervention of a god which could change the story

49
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Relied less on the chorus than other playwrites and used more realistic costuming

50
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Classical comic playwrite

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Aristophanes

51
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Used satire/sarcasm to make his point - often wrote on political topics of the day

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Aristophanes

52
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Wrote Lysistrata

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Aristophanes

53
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Said to be first feminist play

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Lysistrata

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