THAR 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Threshing, Dionysia, Satyr Play
16 Sep 2016
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First documented ritual becoming performance: what survived from greek society. 335 bce, (200 years after the birth of theatre: archaeological remains of several theatres. First ones built into the sides of mountains: ritual beginnings, dionysus (greek god) 10-50 priests: costumed, danced around a huge phallus. Threshing circle: spectators surrounding them, drunkenness, sacrifices (goats or bulls, threshing circle, built in the valleys of mountains. Tie an animal to the shaft in the middle of the circle to walk over the wheat to separate and process the needed part of the wheat plant: thespis, part of the chorus, begins to read lines. Exchange dialogue with the chorus: masks multiple roles, story through action and dialogue, city dionysia festival, held in late spring. First day: parade of dionysus: day 2-3: dithyrambic competitions. 1,000 participants each year: day 3-5: competitions for tragedy, day 6-7: competitions for comedy, events of city dionysia, pompe the procession. Actors, citizens, and metics (people who aren"t citizens)
