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Greek Drama

Dionysus

“In all the country districts the villagers dressed in goat skins like the mythical satyr attendants on the gods, smeared their faces with wine lees, and danced about a man chosen as their leader to impersonate Dionysus.”

Satyr – attendant of Dionysus

Theatre of Dionysus

Parthenon – temple to Athena

Theatre of Dionysus - today

Theater mask

Story of Oedipus Laius = Jocasta king/queen of Thebes

Oracle of Apollo at Delphi

Polybus = Merope king/queen of Corinth

Sphinx

What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?"

Family Tree Polynices (m) Eteocles (m) Antigone (f) Ismene (f)

Tartarus

The Titans

Zeus

Hera

Hades

Poseidon

Hestia

Demeter

Asphodel Meadows

Elysian Fields