Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aeschylus, Tetralogy, Satyr Play

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

Choruses of 50 men or boys presented by each of ten tribes of athens: 3 tragedies + 1 satyr play (tetralogy) One tetralogy on each of three days. Each tetralogy by a single playwright: 3-5 comedies by different playwrights, prizes awarded (highly competitive) Tragedy: based on well-known traditional myths, spoken episodes, solo song and choral interludes, chorus (12-15) responds to action, in song and dance, musical accompaniment by reed pipe (aulos) Three great tragedians of athens: aeschylus (524-456 bce, oresteia, persians, seven against thebes, etc, sophocles (496-406 bce, oedipus rex, antigone, ajax, etc, euripides (480-406 bce, medea, bacchae, trojan women, cyclops, etc. Prometheus bound: produced ca mid fifth century bce, attributed to aeschylus (but uncertainly, may be part of a connected trilogy of plays; others are lost, prometheus unbound, prometheus the firebearer. Characters: chorus of daughters of ocean, ocean, might and force (servants of zeus, hephaistos (hephaestus, prometheus, hermes.