Tragedy

Question 0

Roots of Tragedy

Answer 0

Dionysus worshippers run around drunk on hills. Kill, eat one worshipper. Eventually started using goats.
Leaders have to say why, create DITHYRAMBIC CHANT

Question 1

tragedos

Answer 1

song of the goat

Tragedy comes from it

Question 2

Dithyrambic Chant

Answer 2

explains why the people are worshipping Dionysus

became a competition between different groups. Added songs, acting

Question 3

4 levels of competition for Dithyrambic chants

Answer 3

Rural Dionysia:Spring. Towns
Lenaea:late spring, winners from rural.
Anthesteria:Early summer, winners from lenaea
City Dionysia:In Athens, decided the champion

Question 4

Important People

Answer 4

Arion: standardized the dithyrambic chant, everything else was allowed. Played the cithara
Thespis: in the 6th century bc, separated himself from the chorus. Became the first actor.

Question 5

choreogos

Answer 5

rich patrons of playwrights

Question 6

cothornos

Answer 6

shoes that made the actors taller

Question 7

actor gender

Answer 7

All males

Question 8

Masks

Answer 8

all actors wore them

Question 9

satyr play

Answer 9

comedy

Question 10

Aeschylus

Answer 10

525-456 BC.
The Orestia(trilogy): 
  Agamemnon
  The Libation Bearers
  The Eumenides

Question 11

Euripides

Answer 11

480-406 BC
Works:
Medea
The Trojan Women

Question 12

Sophocles

Answer 12

496-406 BC
Oedipus the King
Oedipus At Colonus
Antigone

Question 13

Parts of a Tragedy

Answer 13

Parados
Episode
Stasimon
(episode and stasimon alternate)
Exodus

Question 14

parados

Answer 14

entrance song for the chorus

Question 15

episode

Answer 15

plot development. little action, mostly dialogue

Question 16

stasimon

Answer 16

an ode sung by the chorus.
3 parts:
Strophe
Antistrophe
Epode
alternates w/ the dialogue

Question 17

exodus

Answer 17

epilogue, final scene

Question 18

Stage

Answer 18

circular theatre

Question 19

open space in theater

Answer 19

orchestra

Question 20

altar in center

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thymele

Question 21

raised platform

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skene

actors come in and out here

Question 22

entranceway

Answer 22

paradoi

Question 23

exitway

Answer 23

ersodoi

Question 24

people sit

Answer 24

theatron

Question 25

columns by the skene

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periacdoi

Question 26

eccyclema

Answer 26

rolling platform for the orchestra or skene

Question 27

stichomythia

Answer 27

verbal fencing.

echoes words from the previous line

Question 28

agon

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verbal conflict between two actors

each aided by half of the chorus

Question 29

mechane

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device to raise or lower gods onto the stage

Question 30

4 props

Answer 30

Wreath: herald/messenger

petasos: walking stick. character is a traveler
scepter: king
spear: warrior

Question 31

eusebia

Answer 31

reverence for gods

Question 32

phronesis

Answer 32

reverence for humans