CLAS 1000 Study Guide - Hoplite, List Of Nx Files Characters, Cithaeron

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Theatre and literature evolve from worship of dionysus. Tragos + ode = goat song > goat men would be the chorus commonly. Gave voices and masks to the actors instead of them miming. Composed 160 tragedies, 13 winning the tragedies of the festival of dionysus another way to compete. Athenians throw themselves into these tragedies and their development. Aeschylus was a survivor of the battle and describes the excitement. Older brother (hoplite), cynegirus, fought at marathon and died. Trilogy of prometheus titan who created mankind. Inspired mary shelley to write frankenstein, modern prometheus. First play in series, only one to survive. Prometheus advocated for man twice once for them to keep the good parts of the animal in a sacrifice (steaks!) which made zeus angry and he took fire from man to punish them and. Prometheus and again when prometheus stole the fire back for man.