FYSM 1106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aeschylus, Actor, Atreus
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Wrote over 90 plays, only 7 survived. Competed against other plays to be performed for the god of wine. First dramatist known: euripodes, thespis (preceded aeschylus myth or fact?) Aeschylus developed the technique with two actors performing a play with masks for different characters: greeks never allowed more than three actors (romans allowed 6) Watchman sees a beacon: the beacons were a chain of bonfires to let those know that troy had been won by the. Greeks: first known record of communication chain. Troy is the surrounding area, ilium and troy are alternative names for the same city. Chorus represents the thoughts of the average citizen: hubris: pride a human being does something that breaks law of the gods and exceeds power of the human being, inevitably lead to punishment (called nemesis) Page 44 reminded of the riddle of the sphinx: whoever solves the riddle of the sphinx will marry the queen (play by sophocles the story of oedipus)