Greek+Theatre

Dramatic Literature [|Greek Art - Khan] [|Parthenon] Dionysus Aristotle Plato Socrates Oedipus

The play: Plays are divided into tragedies and comedies. Tragedies are generally sad, while comedies are funny. The oldest tragedies that we still have were written by __[|Aeschylus] __ around 500 [|BC] . We also have tragedies written by [|Sophocles]  (around 450 BC) and [|Euripides]  (around 425 BC). The oldest comedies that we still have are by [|Aristophanes] , and were also written around 425 BC. Some later comedies were written by [|Menander]  around 350 BC. Plays are also written in verse, like poems.

**[|Different Kinds of Greek Drama]**
 * Greek Comedy
 * Greek Tragedy
 * <span style="color: #17375e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px;">Satyr
 * <span style="color: #17375e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px;">Tragedy vs Comedy

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 * Greek Theater Chapters and Slides text and pix
 * Greek Theater vocabulary
 * [|Comedy and Tragedy - DePaul University]<span style="display: inline !important; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; text-align: left;">overview handout[[file:Comedy and Tragedy - DePaul University.docx]]
 * Greek Playwrights and People
 * [[file:Features of Ancient Greek Tragedy and Aspects of Greek Comedy.docx]]
 * __<span style="color: #2a6496; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px;">[|Greek Theater Index] __

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**<span style="color: #17375e; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; text-align: left;">Four Qualities of Greek Drama: **
 * <span style="color: #17375e; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; text-align: left;">**Performed for special occasions** (festivals). Athens had four festivals worshiping Dionysus -- (Bacchus) god of wine, fertility, rebirth. The son of Zeus and Semele, a mortal, reared by satyrs, killed, dismembered, and resurrected (actually reborn)
 * <span style="color: #17375e; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; text-align: left;">**Dramas were competitive** -- prizes awarded to actors and playwrights --Oedipus apparently didn't win 1st (was 2nd) -- 430 B.C.
 * <span style="color: #17375e; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; text-align: left;">**Choral,** a chorus of men, with singing seems to have been an important part (varied in size form 3 to 50) -- many think the choral song -- dithyramb-- was the beginnings of Greek drama (but origins are unclear). Some believe the chorus sang, moved, and danced. Most believe the chorus underscored the ideas of the play, provided point-of-view, and focused on issues of the play and implications of the action, established the play's ethical system, and participated in the action
 * <span style="color: #17375e; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; text-align: left;">**Closely associated with religion** - stories based on myth or history.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">source: http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/spd130et/ancientgreek.htm#Com

**<span style="color: #17375e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px;">History of the Theater ** <span style="color: #2a6496; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; text-align: center;">[|Greece and Rome] <span style="color: #17375e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px;">[|The Greek Theater] <span style="color: #2a6496; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; text-align: center;">History of the Theater Stage Structure **<span style="color: #17375e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px;">Links to Resources ** [|Greek Art Gallery - Ancient Greece] Greek Literature [|Printables] masks/colorpages [|Greek Wars]