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1 What in the World?? Greek Tragedy: Antigone
Theater Components Actors Chorus

2 Greek Theater: Main components
Theatron: literally, the “watching place” Orchestra: literally, the “dancing place” Skene: “scene,” or backdrop

3 Theatron Daylight Class issues Women Comfort Sound effects

4 Orchestra Challenges: Size Distance from audience Holding interest

5 Skene Behind orchestra Served as backdrop, house
Decorative in later years

6 Other Theater Components
Parados: passageways Ekkykleme: “the thing that rolls” Deus ex Machina: crane used for special effect

7 Actors 3 Actors, all men Various roles Wore masks
Elaborate gestures, “over-acting”

8 Chorus 12-15 men Singing Dancing Strophe Antistrophe

9 Antigone: in context Dionysia Sophocles Oedipus Rex

10 Sophocles 496 B.C.E. :Born in Colonus, in Attica 441: Writes Antigone
: Peloponnesian War (Athens v. Sparta) 429: Writes Oedipus Rex 406: Sophocles dies

11 Oedipus Rex Delphic Oracle, prophecy Corinth Sphinx riddle
Self-punishment Children: Eteocles, Polyneices, Ismene, Antigone

12 More Vocabulary from Greek Theater
Thespis = Thespian Tragedy = “Goat Song” Drama = “To do” Comedy = “Band of Revelers” Satyr = Satire Catharsis = Purification or purgation of the emotions Hubris = Excessive Pride or Arrogance “ Pride goes before the Fall”

13 Corinth: Agora

14 Corinth Sanctuary to Artemis

15 Oracle at Delphi Apollo Parnassus Temple Pythia
Oracle “ a great kingdom will fall”

16 Delphi: Temple to Apollo

17 Delphi: View of valley

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