Greek Drama Notes Quiz Flashcards
Orchestra
Area of circular dam icing place win the theatre where chorus performed
Dionysus
God of wine Drama Fertility Festivals for Dionysus to make crops fertile Competitions for best tragedies
Trageoia
Goat song
Sung by chorus in celebration of dionysus
Chorus
Group of 12-15 men dressed in goat skins who tell stories
Poet(playwright) responsibilities
Compose music Dance Text Directed Trained Chorus Sometimes acted
Role of costumes and masks
Elaborate masks so people see facial expressions from a distance
Costumes helped audience visualize characters
Tragedy
Drama about a character of a high position that comes into contact with a superior force
Has a reversal
Fall
Or death
Hubris
Overwhelming pride or arrogance
Hamartia
Tragic flaw that leads to a hero reversal of fortune
3 great tragedians
Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides
Aeschylus
Added 2nd actor
Sophocles
Added 3rd actor
Euripides
Introduced machine god
Deus ex machina
God from the machine
Used a crane to put a God on the stage
Fix everything humans had gotten themselves into
Prologue
First act
Chorus not yet present
Problem of play introduced
Parados
Entrance of chorus
Episodes
Acts
Usually 5
Stasima
Choral odes
When chorus is singing
Exedus
Action after last stasimon (choral ode)
Aristotles poetics
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
Thespis
First actor
