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1 Greek Drama The Theatre or Apollo at Delphi The Theatre or Apollo at Delphi

2 A.Background 1. Spring time religious celebrations honoring/thanking Dionysus (god of Dionysus (god of wine and fertility— wine and fertility— check out story check out story of Zeus and Semele) of Zeus and Semele)

3 Background 2. Original festivals were religious involving wine and sex 3. Satyrs—Greeks dressed up with goat legs and hooves with goat legs and hooves (prototype of the devil) (prototype of the devil) --tragedy means “goat song” --tragedy means “goat song” --”satire” comes from --”satire” comes from satyr satyr

4 Background 3. Greek chorus—sang in celebration 4. Thespis 5. Next steps —Aeschylus (2 actors) --Sophocles (3 actors) --Sophocles (3 actors) --Euripides (psych. --Euripides (psych. depth) depth)

5 B. Characteristics of Greek Theatre 1. layout— a. a. b. b. c. c. d. d.

6 C. Major Aspects of Clasical Tragedy 1. Tragic hero a. Person of high position or good fortune who falls to very low fortune b. Not excessively good or evil (allows pity and fear in audience) c. Reversal must come not through moral failure but through a hamartia (mistake, misjudgement, “missed the mark”) 2. Tragic flaw 3. Unities of time and place

7 Aspects of Classical Greek Tragedy 3. Unities of time and place

8 B. Characterisitics 4. Hamartia 5. Hubris 6. Catharsis

9 Aspects of Greek Drama Three Important Aspects of the Plot (from our old friend, Aristotle) 1. Peripeteia – turning point 2. Anagnorisis – revelation (realizing a relative who was not known as a relative) -- Best plot (according to A.) is when the peripeteia and the anagnorisis happen at the same time) 3. pathos – pain / suffering (physical and spritual)

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