CLAS 1270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Satyr Play, Aeschylus, Sophocles
4 Jan 2017
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Chorus of singers/dancers performing in honor of dionysus. Peisistratus - remade it to an urban athenian festival: originally it was in the country side, archaic period. Thespis - separated out a lead singer from the chorus: created dialogue. An archon choose wealthy citizens to fund the choruses, costumes, and training. Three days for tragedies: one playwright each day. 1 satyr play - chorus dressed up like satyr"s. 5th century bc theatre at athens held 14000 people. Athens paid for the tickets for athenian citizens: non citizens had to pay. Costumes - platform boots and masks: big so people in the back can see. Plays were episodic: divided between dialogue between choruses and choral odes, and dances. Special effects: crane to lower god down from sky, ekkuklema - platform on wheels that could role forward to reveal what happened offstage. Didn"t (cid:449)ant to sho(cid:449) (cid:448)iolence on stage.
