CLAS 2051 Lecture Notes - Euripides, Dionysia, Aeschylus
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Pre-socratics- very little to say about gender. Plato started writing just after 399 bce. *drama is interchangeable with theatre can describe both tragedy and comedy. Greek tragedy as a developing art form. Aristotle in his poetics, talks about the development of tragedy- not really an action, rather just characters speaking on the stage first surviving play is the persians by auschylus (472 bce) Three prominent surviving (works complete or almost complete) tragedians: 472-406 bce- 60 years from first performance of persians to last performance of. Worshiped dionysus, specifically in city dionysia festival, judges attended, voted on the best play. Voting becomes important- when writing plays, trying to gain fame/notoriety, encourages one to put aside personal beliefs in favour of writing a play that will win the competition. Women not permitted to act on stage- men playing roles of women (similar to. Masks that made them look like women change ideas of women if we were to imagine a mixed-gender audience.
