Greek Review

Question 1

Ekkyklema

Answer 1

Wheel cart of death

Question 2

Mechane

Answer 2

Deus ex machina
(God of the machine)

*really squeeky = too funny for tragedies

Question 3

Aulos
Single or double

Answer 3

Instrument
probably to play a chord accompanied by a melody over it

Question 4

Thespis 540 BCE

Answer 4

Ne extant words

The first to step away from dithyramb, making actor + chorus

Toured with a small cart

Question 5

Aeschylus
Actor pioneering?
Death?
How many plays?

Answer 5

FOUGHT AT MARATHON making Athens an important Polus (City State)

• frequent winner (13-time winner)
• pioneered the second actor
• Death by turtle shell from silly eagle

we have 7/80 Plays
- The Orestria (Only trilogy)
- The Persians (earliest)

Question 6

Oresteia

Answer 6

Oresteia is the only complete trilogy we have.

• Movement from blood vengeance to democracy

Question 7

Sophocles 496 - 406 BCE
Actor pioneering?
How many plays?

Answer 7

Accounts of this man performing naked all oiled up

• pioneered third actor
• gave actors more adverse roles
• lived to 90

7/ 120+ Plays
- Oedipus Rex, Antigone
- Inachus (but it’s in a mummified crocodile)

Question 8

Euripides

Why we have so much Euripedes plays?

Answer 8

• Loser = banished from Athens
• not popular
• was made fun of
• Show women as improper

18 / 90 plays
- Medea
- Hippolytus
- Cyclops (only satyr play we have)
- Bacchae - story of women and Dionysus in forest

An entire volume survived?

Question 9

THE STRAY “tragedy”

Answer 9

Rhesus by Euripides (before 440 BCE)

Question 10

Greek Chorus

Answer 10

*often speaks in unison
*singing
*Dancing
*defines the social ethical framework of the play
*tool of assimilation
*propaganda
*colonization
*ideal spectator
*mood
*spectacle of moving in union
*Rhythm - break up scenes
*information - what happened off stage
*NOT PAID - Extensive training

Question 11

*Theory of EPHEBES young men 18 - 20

Why participate in Greek Chorus?

Answer 11

undergo two years of military training that includes dancing and singing

• be part of Greek culture, practice assimilation, being part of a unit

Question 12

Old Comedy

Answer 12

happened earlier
- highly particular and responsive to whatever present time is
*made fun of politicians and prominents of Athens

Aristophanes (11 total)
Birds, Frogs

Question 13

New Comedy

Answer 13

Democracy ends 322 BCE
- less acceptable to crticize rulers
- Rome invades Greece 146 BCE

Stock characters & Stereotypes
- domestic settings

Question 14

Extant Play by Menander

Answer 14

Dyskolos (The Grouch)

Question 15

Founders of Western Philosophy

Answer 15

Plato (deductive model) & Aristotle (inductive model)

Question 16

Plato 428 BCE
Detuctive Model

Answer 16

could have known Sochocles and Euripides in youth
- student of Socrates
- suspicious of art & poetry generally because they encourage a false sense of reality = dangerous
*WRITES IN DIALOGUE = bros a hipo

IMAGINE THE IDEAL CITY
- every man does one thing
- no use for poets and theatremakers because they’re perverted weirdos
- WE SHALL EXCLUDE THEM FROM IDEAL CITY

Question 17

Platos Theory of forms

Answer 17

IDEA/THOUGHT = the ideal form

Physical = object made
Tangeable = drawing of an object

Question 18

Aristotle 384 - 322 BCCE
Inductive Model

Answer 18

Plato’s student
Mimesis is chill as long people no it’s a representation

Question 19

Aristotle The Poetics

Answer 19

Writes drama - we only have ‘tragedy’ book

• Thought earlier work was DESCRIPTIVE

*Poetics Tragedy = imitation of an action that is serious, yet embellished = NOT NARRATIVE

Aristotle thought Oedipus Rex was perfect example of good tragedy

Question 20

Catharsis

Answer 20

Tragedy, through pity and fear, affects the proper purgation of these emotions

Question 21

Hamartia

Answer 21

Misfortune is brought about by error or frailty (not vice)

Question 22

Aristotle

Answer 22

Student of pluto
- mimesis is good
WROTE THE POETICS

Question 23

Aristotle’s Poetics

Answer 23

we only have the tragedy not the comedy

Question 24

Plato

Answer 24

• Really sus of art, created a false sense of reality
• pretending to be corrupt may lead to actual corruption