THEA 2011 Lecture Notes - Komos, Dramatic Theory
20 Mar 2014
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Athens was still reeling from a massive defeat in scicily in 423 bc. The big debate among athenians was whether to negotiate with the spartans. A central idea is introduced in conversation between characters. The entrance of the chorus into the orchestra. An episode is a sequence of dialogue between characters about central ideas. The episodes are separated by choric ode, and or conversations between the chorus and the characters. The problems is solved and the character celebrate. Male characters wore padding to look fat and their tunics were too short. They wore flesh coloured tights under their tunics. This creates a vision of athens in which everyone is driven by physical desires: food and sex. All these societies are patriarchal - founded on the principal that a women is the possession of her father or husbands. In many cultures a woman on display to men is considered unchaste, comparable with a prostate.
