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1 Background Information The Career of Æschylus The House of Atreus
Greek Tragedy Background Information The Career of Æschylus The House of Atreus

2 Development of Greek Tragedy
Dithyramb and Satyrika Strophic choral poetry Associated c. Dionysiac worship Originated in Corinth ca. 600 B.C. Thespis Probably NOT the creator of tragedy Perhaps introduced the prologue and speech Æschylus: introduced the 2nd actor Sophocles introduced the 3rd actor

3 Greek Tragedy in the 5th Century
Location Theater of Dionysus in Athens Syracuse Setting Festivals in Attica City Dionysia Rural Dionysia Lenæa Competition

4 Athenian Acropolis and Environs

5 Theater of Dionysus

6 Theatre at Syracuse

7 Theatre Plan 1. Orchestra 2. Eisodoi 3. Skene 4. Skene building
5. Cavea

8 The Tragic Machinery Chorus Actors (also masked) Skene Mechane
12-15 Members Masked Dancing Strophic Songs (c. antistrophes) Characters Stasimon vs. Parodos Actors (also masked) Skene Mechane Ekkyklema

9 Skene, Mechane, and Ekkyklema

10 Masks

11 The Greater Dionysia 3 Tragedians 12 Plays Satyr Plays
Choregia/Choregos (liturgies) Comedy Ritual

12 Æschylus’ Career Ca. 525: Born in Eleusis 499: First Tragic Production
490: Marathon 484: First Victory 480: Salamis 472: Persians (Pericles is choregos) 467: Seven against Thebes ???: Suppliants 458: Oresteia ca. 457: Goes to Sicily 456?: Prometheus Bound 456/5: Dies

13 The House of Atreus 1st Generation 2nd Generation Names Events Names
Pelops Hippodameia Oinomaos Myrtilos Events The Race 2nd Generation Names Atreus Aërope Thyestes Events The Seduction The Ram The Feast

14 The House of Atreus 3rd Generation
Agamemnon Menelaos Clytemnestra Orestes Electra Iphigeneia Ægisthos Events Important to Agamemnon The Feast of Thyestes The Blood Curse The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia at Aulis The Trojan War

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