Lecture 7
... insolence), Phthonos (envy), Dionysia, (534), Dionysus, wine, mask= prosopon = character, enthusiasm, maenad, dithyramb, extemporization, Thespis, Hypokrites (actor/dissembler), tragedy = goat song, satyrs, choregos, orchestra, skene, ekkuklema, mechanē, parodoi/exodoi, protagonist, deuteragonist, t ...
... insolence), Phthonos (envy), Dionysia, (534), Dionysus, wine, mask= prosopon = character, enthusiasm, maenad, dithyramb, extemporization, Thespis, Hypokrites (actor/dissembler), tragedy = goat song, satyrs, choregos, orchestra, skene, ekkuklema, mechanē, parodoi/exodoi, protagonist, deuteragonist, t ...
Greek Theatre Notes Greek History: Because Greece is a
... The power of Athens declined following its defeat in the Peloponnesian War against the Spartans. From that time on, the theatre started performing old tragedies again. Although its theatrical traditions seemed to have lost its vitality, Greek theatre continued into the Hellenistic period (the period ...
... The power of Athens declined following its defeat in the Peloponnesian War against the Spartans. From that time on, the theatre started performing old tragedies again. Although its theatrical traditions seemed to have lost its vitality, Greek theatre continued into the Hellenistic period (the period ...
File - Mrs. Mueller`s World!
... Student of Plato who came to Athens from Macedonia in order to study under him Hired as a tutor to Alexander the Great Developed a three-step system of logic ...
... Student of Plato who came to Athens from Macedonia in order to study under him Hired as a tutor to Alexander the Great Developed a three-step system of logic ...
Tragedy - Mister Dan`s Page
... parents are not his parents. He goes to Delphi and asks the oracle who his parents are: you will kill your father and marry your mother. O decides to avoid Corinth at all costs. As he leaves Delphi, O skirmishes with and older man and kills him, O goes to Thebes where a sphinx is plaguing the city a ...
... parents are not his parents. He goes to Delphi and asks the oracle who his parents are: you will kill your father and marry your mother. O decides to avoid Corinth at all costs. As he leaves Delphi, O skirmishes with and older man and kills him, O goes to Thebes where a sphinx is plaguing the city a ...
Greek Drama PowerPoint
... The Oedipus story is set in c. 420 BC, a few generations before the Trojan War, which the ancient Greeks placed in 1184 BC. Hero's downfall is partially her/his own fault -- the result of free choice, usually triggered by some error of judgment or some character flaw, but the character gains self-kn ...
... The Oedipus story is set in c. 420 BC, a few generations before the Trojan War, which the ancient Greeks placed in 1184 BC. Hero's downfall is partially her/his own fault -- the result of free choice, usually triggered by some error of judgment or some character flaw, but the character gains self-kn ...
Greek Drama Notes PPT
... medium—increased the size of the chorus, abandoned the trilogy of plays for the self-contained tragedy, and introduced scene painting. ...
... medium—increased the size of the chorus, abandoned the trilogy of plays for the self-contained tragedy, and introduced scene painting. ...
Ancient Greek Theater
... little more than open areas in city centers or next to hillsides where the audience, standing or sitting, could watch and listen to the chorus singing about the exploits of a god or heroes. From the late 6th Century BC to the4th and 3rd Centuries BC there was a gradual evolution towards more elabora ...
... little more than open areas in city centers or next to hillsides where the audience, standing or sitting, could watch and listen to the chorus singing about the exploits of a god or heroes. From the late 6th Century BC to the4th and 3rd Centuries BC there was a gradual evolution towards more elabora ...
Slide 1
... Electra and the history of the Mycenae family. We are very fortunate to have three surviving versions of the same story. ...
... Electra and the history of the Mycenae family. We are very fortunate to have three surviving versions of the same story. ...
Book-1-Part
... north-west of Athens, not the Egyptian Thebes, which is on the River Nile, near Luxor). The outline of the story, but not the details, is drawn from Greek myth…. The mythological story behind the play Antigone’s opening speech refers to her and Ismene’s situation as daughters of Oedipus, and this th ...
... north-west of Athens, not the Egyptian Thebes, which is on the River Nile, near Luxor). The outline of the story, but not the details, is drawn from Greek myth…. The mythological story behind the play Antigone’s opening speech refers to her and Ismene’s situation as daughters of Oedipus, and this th ...
Sophocles`s background - Mr. Harris English Class
... husband denounce her before dying, and she commits suicide. In this play Sophocles describes the difficult situation of the person who, without meaning to, hurts those whom he or she loves. Oedipus Rex (429 B.C.E.), which many have considered the greatest play of all time, is not about sex or murder ...
... husband denounce her before dying, and she commits suicide. In this play Sophocles describes the difficult situation of the person who, without meaning to, hurts those whom he or she loves. Oedipus Rex (429 B.C.E.), which many have considered the greatest play of all time, is not about sex or murder ...
Document
... compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black... Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world." The speech ...
... compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black... Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world." The speech ...
Classics / WAGS 23: Essay 3 (April 16, 2011) 3.1 Disruptive
... logos prevailing. Through Oedipus, Sophocles provides many examples of logos overriding ergon. The play itself is rooted in an aspect of logos, prophecy. Despite Oedipus’ attempts to avoid his fate, the prophecy still comes true. As Oedipus unravels the meaning of his past actions, other forms of lo ...
... logos prevailing. Through Oedipus, Sophocles provides many examples of logos overriding ergon. The play itself is rooted in an aspect of logos, prophecy. Despite Oedipus’ attempts to avoid his fate, the prophecy still comes true. As Oedipus unravels the meaning of his past actions, other forms of lo ...
Sophocles Biography Information about Sophocles` life is at best
... powerful poetry and stagecraft. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven complete tragedies survive. Of the rest, only some titles and fragments remain. As late as 1907, a papyrus with several hundred lines of a Sophoclean play called The Ichneutae turned up in Egypt. Perhaps someday othe ...
... powerful poetry and stagecraft. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven complete tragedies survive. Of the rest, only some titles and fragments remain. As late as 1907, a papyrus with several hundred lines of a Sophoclean play called The Ichneutae turned up in Egypt. Perhaps someday othe ...
Greek Playwrights
... Eumenides reveals the stories of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes. Agamemnon: When Agamemnon is notified that the fall of Troy is imminent, his wife, Clytemnestra, rejoices; however, their daughter Iphigeneia dies as a result of their actions during this war. Agamemnon brings the Trojan princess ...
... Eumenides reveals the stories of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes. Agamemnon: When Agamemnon is notified that the fall of Troy is imminent, his wife, Clytemnestra, rejoices; however, their daughter Iphigeneia dies as a result of their actions during this war. Agamemnon brings the Trojan princess ...
Sophocles and Alcibiades
... with certain tendencies and predilections “would inevitably say or do” (Arist. Po. 1451b). The “love” and “hate” of Aristophanes’ Athenians, moreover, will have done much to charge the plays of Sophocles and Euripides with the “pity” and “fear” that, again according to Aristotle, characterized the b ...
... with certain tendencies and predilections “would inevitably say or do” (Arist. Po. 1451b). The “love” and “hate” of Aristophanes’ Athenians, moreover, will have done much to charge the plays of Sophocles and Euripides with the “pity” and “fear” that, again according to Aristotle, characterized the b ...
