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| dramatic literature peculiar to spain, but very similar to English morality plays |
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| greek for to act - from which we get 'Drama' |
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| stadium seating, place where they acted |
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| sun god, usually associated with male characteristics |
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| first book of dramatic criticism |
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| emotional cleansing, feeling after tragedy is observed |
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| huge theatrical festival in Athens to celebrate all that they had accomplished in the previous year. |
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| temple dedicated to Athena in greece |
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| things written and published with an intended lifetime that is very short (ex trading cards) comes from greek- meaning lasting no more than a day |
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| greek god of wine and theatre, plays and city dionysia were dedicated to him |
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| songs to gods, first religious songs |
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| hero, tragic flaw, long, ex. The illiad, The odyssey |
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| means imitation in greek - has to do with an imitation of life |
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| the entrance for the audience - the plural of 'parados' - tall arches which came out of sides of the stage where the audience comes in |
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| famous book written by plato - defines justice and points our the human tendency toward corruption and power. claims that ruling should be left to philosophers. |
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| raised stage where the chorus stood - the 'back wall' |
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| see notes (realists, skeptics) |
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| the first stone theatre ever built - dedicated to dionysus, the god of wine. could seat 17,000-which made it ideal for the city dionysia |
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| raised hillside where audience sat |
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| duncan, if you dont know this one then your just destined to fail (falling from a higher estate to a lower one) |
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| excessive pride, usually the downfall of someone high up in a play |
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| bad luck, means that its not necessarily a tragic flaw that brings someone down, just could be that things don’t work out |
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| a characteristic (vanity, pride, etc) that brings about a tragic heros destruction |
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| hero of story with a tragic flaw, is in a position of power and falls from it |
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| “song of revelers" - greek comedy |
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| short plays that made fun of mythological stories |
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| reinforces society and accepts social norms - doesn't mock anyone - opposite of anarchic comedy |
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| high city - a city on a hill so it is easy to defend. the most famous akropolis is the one in athens |
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| temple of athena. named after Athena's epithet - parthenos which refers to her virginity- also where the chicks in lysistrata hid. |
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| first historian, wrote history of Peloponnesian war |
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| rejects and criticizes society and its norms - satire - lysistrata |
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| the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition - writing style |
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| the intellectual identification with the feelings of another person - putting yourself in someone elses shoes |
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| an accepted dramatic trait of the time - i.e an aside |
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| Greek comedy from 5th century - farcical, attacked religious and political themes. Assoc. with Aristophanes who wrote lysistrata. |
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