CL101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Antiphon, Aeschylus, Trojan War
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Drama week where all the athenians would gather at the theater and watch. Athenians" drama week plays that were written especially for the occasion. In the evening you see satter plays (strip plays; sex) Helps us to understand the crucial concept of literature. Most prominent theory was put up as a sacrifice, and designating a goat on which all the sins were heaped and the goat was banished however we have zero evidence of this. Dithyramb -> antiphony: one lead singer and a chorus answering. Tragedy is an early form of singing that was practiced by shepard"s who were heading goats, the shepard calling and the goat answering the call . Anything sad meant you were singing a (cid:498)goat song(cid:499) A lot of the songs the shepherds sing are sad in nature, usually about a loss. These became a genre, tragedy takes the structure and brings it onto stage and elaborates the sadness in the theater.
