CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dionysia, Community Theatre, Proscenium

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

November 2nd, 2009: wealthy athenians would pay for festival was seen as a great importance, bragging rights, propaganda for festival. Day 1: worship of dionysus and chorus competition: any chorus in athens could compete. Day 5: comedies by different authors: about 4 or 5 plays were shown, comedies would be voted on. Satyr play: liked the idea of poking fun. Grand philosophy answer of how people can get along and coexist: justice, wisdom, love all have properties when you see tragedies you see one particular example of a grander law. Oedipus rex: he was murder, killed father and married mother, catastrophic fall of man. Antigone: went bend his moral code to anyone not even the gods, code has driven him to hate everything because everything is changing seasons, committed suicide. Euripides (480-406: took home few first prizes, outlook entirely modern, good people aren"t always awarded and bad people aren"t always punished. Lecture 21: competed 22 time and won 5.