VPDB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dionysia, Political Satire, Dithyramb
6 Jul 2015
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Ancient greece is usually referred to athens. Mycenae is a part of greece; model for the greeks, for ancient athenians. 600 bc and 1200 bc city state of mycenae flourished. Interesting climate: competition for everything, fairly close to each other. Could have been replaced by spynx (egyptian reference probably) Finds out his bro has an affair with his wife, so he murdered his children and fed his kids to his twin brothers. Payback: have a kid with your daughter who will kill atrius. Emergence of tradition: poets, musicians all who told stories of atrius. Homer: 2 famous poems today were from him. May have been altered since it was written: he was singing the stories not just telling them, ^ indian veda tradition: embodying the stories, manipulating the body methods of teaching, one man embodied all the characters. Video: emerged from dancing, religious roots, trigos (goat) comes from tragedy . Animal sacrifices were tragic: thespis: traveler, one-man performer.
