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Tragedy Flashcards

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Roots of Tragedy

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Dionysus worshippers run around drunk on hills. Kill, eat one worshipper. Eventually started using goats.
Leaders have to say why, create DITHYRAMBIC CHANT

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tragedos

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song of the goat

Tragedy comes from it

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Dithyrambic Chant

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explains why the people are worshipping Dionysus

became a competition between different groups. Added songs, acting

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4 levels of competition for Dithyrambic chants

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Rural Dionysia:Spring. Towns
Lenaea:late spring, winners from rural.
Anthesteria:Early summer, winners from lenaea
City Dionysia:In Athens, decided the champion

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Important People

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Arion: standardized the dithyrambic chant, everything else was allowed. Played the cithara
Thespis: in the 6th century bc, separated himself from the chorus. Became the first actor.

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choreogos

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rich patrons of playwrights

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cothornos

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shoes that made the actors taller

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actor gender

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All males

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Masks

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all actors wore them

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satyr play

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comedy

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Aeschylus

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525-456 BC.
The Orestia(trilogy): 
  Agamemnon
  The Libation Bearers
  The Eumenides
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Euripides

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480-406 BC
Works:
Medea
The Trojan Women

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Sophocles

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496-406 BC
Oedipus the King
Oedipus At Colonus
Antigone

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Parts of a Tragedy

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Parados
Episode
Stasimon
(episode and stasimon alternate)
Exodus
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parados

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entrance song for the chorus

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episode

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plot development. little action, mostly dialogue

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stasimon

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an ode sung by the chorus.
3 parts:
Strophe
Antistrophe
Epode
alternates w/ the dialogue
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exodus

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epilogue, final scene

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Stage

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circular theatre

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open space in theater

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orchestra

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altar in center

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thymele

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raised platform

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skene

actors come in and out here

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entranceway

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paradoi

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exitway

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ersodoi

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people sit

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theatron

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columns by the skene

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periacdoi

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eccyclema

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rolling platform for the orchestra or skene

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stichomythia

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verbal fencing.

echoes words from the previous line

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agon

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verbal conflict between two actors

each aided by half of the chorus

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mechane

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device to raise or lower gods onto the stage

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4 props

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Wreath: herald/messenger

petasos: walking stick. character is a traveler
scepter: king
spear: warrior

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eusebia

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reverence for gods

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phronesis

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reverence for humans

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