ENG 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Theatre Of Ancient Greece, Choros, Dionysia
23 Sep 2015
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Chorus of 50 men or boys, sang versus in praise of god dionysus: performance in dramatic competitions of dionysus" spring & winter festivals, catalogue of repeated legends repeatedly re dramatized, aiming to effect mass communal experience, always composed in verse. City dionysia: more recent creation, held march april, 4 5 days, beginning of sailing season, attracted many foreign visitors, power of erect phallus always present/reminder, hypokritai perhaps originally meant respondents . Costumes: gender, social status, age, species, tunics, undergarments, cloaks, buskins raised platform boots. Had 4 children w/ his mother jocasta: homeric version jocasta hangs herself but oedipus continues to rule, appears in fold traditions of greece, albania, cyprus & finland, impossible to separate kernel of historic truth from myth, had to solve riddle of sphinx in order to save thebes from plague, sphinx not male but female, danger that women present in oedipus.
