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Greek Drama Notes Quiz Flashcards

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Orchestra

A

Area of circular dam icing place win the theatre where chorus performed

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Dionysus

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God of wine
Drama
Fertility
Festivals for Dionysus to make crops fertile 
Competitions for best tragedies
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Trageoia

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Goat song

Sung by chorus in celebration of dionysus

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Chorus

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Group of 12-15 men dressed in goat skins who tell stories

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Poet(playwright) responsibilities

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Compose music 
Dance
Text
Directed 
Trained Chorus
Sometimes acted
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Role of costumes and masks

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Elaborate masks so people see facial expressions from a distance
Costumes helped audience visualize characters

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Tragedy

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Drama about a character of a high position that comes into contact with a superior force
Has a reversal
Fall
Or death

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Hubris

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Overwhelming pride or arrogance

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Hamartia

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Tragic flaw that leads to a hero reversal of fortune

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3 great tragedians

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Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides

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Aeschylus

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Added 2nd actor

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Sophocles

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Added 3rd actor

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Euripides

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Introduced machine god

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Deus ex machina

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God from the machine
Used a crane to put a God on the stage
Fix everything humans had gotten themselves into

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Prologue

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First act
Chorus not yet present
Problem of play introduced

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Parados

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Entrance of chorus

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Episodes

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Acts

Usually 5

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Stasima

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Choral odes

When chorus is singing

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Exedus

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Action after last stasimon (choral ode)

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Aristotles poetics

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Central character from an elite class
Central character suffers downfall
Central character is neither good nor evil
Downfall is the result of a fatal flaw
Misfortunes involve characters who are closely related or friends
Tragic actions take place offstage
Central character must have a moment of recognition
Audience experiences pity and fear
Pity and fear leads to purging negative emotions

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Thespis

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First actor

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