Greek Mythology Review Flashcards
Meaning of Desis & Lusis
Desis: Tying up
Lusis: Unravelling
Greek for reversal
Peripeteia/Perpetuity
Phokis
Where three roads meet
Hypocrite
This is what they referred the Actors as. Only 3 actors on stage at a time. Only men, in which they played multiple parts and characters.
Oedipus Rex- Name of adoptive parents
Polybus & Merope
Famous oracle was at
Delphi
Skene
Where the actors dressing rooms were.
Fear and Pity
The two emotion that make us Katharsis
Hemlock
How Socrates was executed
God of wine and fertility
Dionysus: Space in front of Greek state to offer sacrifices
Orchestra
Large area in front of the stage where the actors sung and danced
Deux ex Machina
An external force that magically resolved any plot from Greek theatre; usually a hanging machine.
Homer
Wrote The odyssey and Iliad. Only performed his works orally.
The Lyceum
Aristotle’s school
Socrates
Only know him through plato and the republic. Believed in writing stunted ideas.
Theatron
area of seats where the audience sat from the hillside.
Thymele
Alter centered in the orchestra where sacrifices where made to Dionysus.
Parados
Walled walkway used to by the chorus to enter and exit the stage. Connected the skene to the orchestra.
Pro- Scenium
Long, narrow stage behind the orchestra where royalty sat.
Eceylema
Movable and/or revolving platform
What is the chorus in Greek theatre?
After every scene there is a chorus. It usually sums the previous scene. Led by a conductor, it imitates the actions of the previous scenes (15 people)
Tells about what happened, dramatizes to the audience and sometimes foreshadows the next scene.
What was the festival of Dionysus?
5 days in March and April On the first day, Greeks honour him. Second day, choral songs are performed Last Three days: actors perform: - Three tragedies - One satyr - One comedy Archon: State official who selected three parts to compete for a prize in the tragedy division.
Myth
Unity of time- duration of play
Unity of place- one location
Unity of action- unified, cohesive plot
1100-800BC: Dark Ages
Separated villages
No centralized government and little changes
800-500BC: Archaic/Homer Age
Homer and his books. The formation of city states with development od trading and shippings.
800-500BC: Archaic/Homer Age
Homer and his books. The formation of city states with development od trading and shippings.
500-323BC: Classical
Begins with the Battle of Marathon
Birth of democracy: a direct democracy. Although, only men were allowed to vote. Women where “special citizens”
500-323BC: Classical Age
Major cites being built. Broken down, but rebuilt during the renaissance period.
Birth of ostracism
Three Fates
Clotho: weaver rolls out the rope
Lachesis: measures the rope
Atropes: Cut the rope and end a life.
Apollo (Roman Apollo)
God of sun, music, poetry, prophecy, pictured with a lear
Artemies (Roman Diana)
Goddess of moon, protector of virgins
Bow and arrow to hunt
Athena (Roman Minerva)
Out of Zeus’ head
Symbol the owl
Zeus (Roman Jupiter)
Father of olympus
Lightening/Eagle
Hades (Roman Pluto)
God of Underworld
Ares (Roman Mars)
God of war, violence, switches sides to keep war going
Dionysus (Roman Backus)
Wine and fertility. Major in festavls.
Hermies (Roman Mercury)
Messenger and Trickster God
Pan
Part goat part man/panic derived
What was most profound during 6th century BCE in Greece?
Mathematics and Cosmology
Who was the founder of political philosophy?
Socrates
What was the first University called?
The Academy
What were Plato’s first to third writings?
First: Plays
Second: Justice and leadership. Focused on the Republic.
Third: Theory of forms and the metaphysical world.
Who restored democracy?
Plato
Structure of Greek Tragedy
- Prologue
- Parados
- Episodes
- Stasima
- Exodus
What is an ideal form
Ideal form for everything, everything else is a pure copy of that ideal form.
The Archon
A state official that selected three parts to complete for a prize in the tragedy division.
Playwright
Served as a teacher and moral improvement for a community.
Festival of Dinoysus
First day: Progression honouring Dinoysus
Second day: Choral songs are performed
Thrid Day: actors perform three tragedies, a satyr, and a comedy.
5 days in March and April
