CLAS201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Erinyes, Athenian Democracy, Laius
1 Jan 2013
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Dionysus presence means place is exploding with greenness. Tragedy starts with homer 50% has debated tragedy (illiad & odeyssey) speaks commenting on the action that the greeks are interested in (dialogue) Originally the plays were designed to be preformed for one day only. Everybody would attend civic duty to attend these plays. Thespsis drama starts with him: before him, commitment to dionysis is shown by singing the didyramb. Groups of people sing this: aristotle tells us thespsis extemporized on the didyramb. Starts a dialogue between himself and the chorus. Piesistrachus establishes the dionysia (tragic, dramatic festival: first person to win was thespsis. Hypokretis literally to answer : associated with the word an actor (someone pretending to be something they are not) Dionysus in the spring, plants are growing: previous summer meeting of officials in athens and they would select 3 choregos (pay for all the expenses of the production) Private individuals don"t make money from these plays.
