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How did Pesistratus become tyrant

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  • Huge military force
  • Use fear
  • Laws & rules of citizens
  • Divide land & use minions to oversee those lands

*Patriotism (Nationalism) - unifies large groups of people by sharing the same values, singing the same song
* Create a common culture to assimilate diverse groups

USING THEATRE & ART AS A TOOL

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Commemorative Performance

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  • Communal experience
  • Connect with Ancient Deities

Ancient Greece transition from ritual to performative theatre

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Dionysus God of What?

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Wine
Fertility
Fruit
Vegetation
Festivity
Theatre

EXTASIS (ecstasy) - Ritual madness

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The BACCHAE Playwright

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  • Dionysus arrives in Thebes
  • Thebes don’t believe in this god
  • Women start following Dionysus
  • Dionysus goes to king disguised saying he needs to leave because the women crazy
  • The king hides in tree to watch his mom and women go all festive with Dionysus in the forest
  • Dionysus tells everyone to look at the tree with king
  • Women tear the king limb from limb
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What are festivals for?

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  • Social cohesion
  • Pressure release theory, the opportunity to be silly
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Lenaia Festival

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January

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Anthestria Festival

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Jan/Feb

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Rural Dionysia

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December

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City Dionysia History

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Late March
- biggest festival
- seas easier to sale so more attendance
- Dionysus swear plague on male genetalia who don’t like him
- people like their penises so they change their minds and like him

COMPETITION

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Tetralogy

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Comedy

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4 plays
- three tragedy
- one satyr

5 Comedies

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Archon

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  • Assigns three playwrights a Choregus (Sponcer who covers cost of everything in the show)

*Assigns Chorus (group of originally 50, of boys and men)

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City Dionysia DAY ONE

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Parade through Athens
BUILD THE HYPE

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City Dionysia DAY TWO

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Processions (religious ceremonies)
Sacrifices
Dithyramb competition (sing off between these 50 boys and men about Dionysus or wines)
* 10 tribes would compete in the sing off

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City Dionysia DAY THREE

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Comedies (from 486 BCE)

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City Dionysia DAY FOUR, FIVE, SIX

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Tetralogies
Three playrights sumbit 4 tragedy on one satyr play

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City Dionysia DAY SEVEN

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AWARDS
- Each of the ten tribes votes and only 5 are accounted to let “gods decide the vote”

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ETYMOLOGY - Hypokrites

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actors

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ETYMOLOGY - Theatron

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Seeing Place

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ETYMOLOGY - Tragoidia (tragedy)

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goat song
sacrificing animals + Dithyramb (singing competition)

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ETYMOLOGY - Thespis (Actor named Thespe who stepped out of the chorus)

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6th century “Stepping out”

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GREEK DRAMA CHARACTERISTICS

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RITUAL - ecstasis

COMPETITIVE - Honour & Glory

SUBSIDIZED - Choregoi

CHORAL - Dithyramb

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Full Circle

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Greek

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Semi Circle

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Roman

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Periclean theoric fund

THEATRE IMPORTANCE

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  • Theatre is so important that fund helpes anyone who wanted to go see theatre
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Choral participation as national service THEATRE IMPORTANCE
- Theatre is so important because chorus unifies the people such as an army, walk, talk, speak at same time
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Violence in theatre = punishment THEATRE IMPORTANCE
- Theatre is so important you would be killed, thrown into pit, or hit with a bat
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Theatre seat thousands THEATRE IMPORTANCE
- Approx 2% of the population can attend every day - so big, similar to sports arenas
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Watching Plays all-day THEATRE IMPORTANCE
- civic responsibility - civic education
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Aeschylus 525c-455 BCE
- frequent winner (13 time winner) - pioneered the second actor * Death by turtle shell from silly eagle 7 PLAYS - The Orestria (Only trilogy) - The Persians (earliest)
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Sophocles 497-406 BCE
- pioneered third actor - gave actors more adverse roles - lived to 90 7 PLAYS - Oedipus Rex, Antigone - Inachus (but it's in a mummified crocodile)
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Euripides 480-406 BCE
- Loser - not popular - was made fun of 18 plays - Medea - Cyclops (only satyr play we have)
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32 tragedies is what percent of all the tragedies we should have 32 / 1152
2.7% of all tragedies *NOTE: we should assume everything we know about Greek theatre to be the full picture
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Satyr play
Starred Half man half horse/goat charecters - All had very large, erect penises - party, drink, dance, sex,
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Pronomos Vase
WE THINK it is the most accurate depiction of Greek Theatre - Ultimately could be artist's depiction - Hercules in lion skin - Chorus all wearing the same masks - Satyr wore erect falloi = Greeks had low taste in comedy
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Old Comedy
happened earlier - highly particular and responsive to whatever present time is *made fun of politicians and prominents of Athens Aristophanes (11 total) The birds, the frogs
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New Comedy
Democracy ends 322 BCE - less acceptable to crticize rulers - Rome invades Greece 146 BCE Stock characters & Stereotypes - domestic settings
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Acropolis
- City Centre of Athens
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Athens population
20 - 30 thousand
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The Parthenon has what statue insinde? What was modelled after the Parthenon?
- statue of Athene - banks
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Ancient Agora in the West Agoraphobia
Marketplace - important place for people to gather
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Hephestium
Temple devoted to god hephaestus
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Temple of Olympian Zeus
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South slope: Acropolis
This is where you find Theatre
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Odeum of Herodes Atticus
Rich guy built Roman a Theatre (Semi circle)
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Admission to Theatre of Dionysus
old grey coin looking thing
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Theatre of Dionysus
Was renovated by the Romans several times. - This is why semi circle :( Open Air theatre in Athens Seats 15 - 17 thousand people Earliest components date to the 6th century BCE Many subsequence remodellings Present state dates mostly from 390 - 325BCE
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Precinct of Dionysus
Performance at conception was an act of religion - Appraising Dionysus
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EPICS (literary genre)
- performed for many years before being written down - sung
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Dionysus as god of ecstatic transformation
- through wine - through performance - Dionysus replaced Hestia as one of the TWELVE (Stronger represents the values of Athens at the time)
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What backdrops Theatre of Dionysus
The city of Athens - provoked audience see and think of city during story telling
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Theatron
the seating (viewing place/ contemplating place)
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Parodoi/ Parados
Chorus and actors enter stage from the Parados on left and right - one side could represent coming from city - the other could represent coming from country
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Orchestra
Performing area - playing space - Greek = perfectly round
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Skene
hut or tent - set for a backdrop (Symbolises palace during play)
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Odeon of Pericles
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Hellenistic world (2nd Century BCE) to 1st Century AD (Roman) changes
- Romans added tiles - Roman added infrastruture changes and ston built structure for backdrop
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Where to go to see what a Greek Theatre looks like?
Epidaurus - steep seating
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Greek theatre aspects
- natural hills - full circle orchestra - No significant backdrop
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Greek Costume
MASKS - cover full head with fake hair No longer exist (organic material decomposes) Change characters frequently - also used because limited amount of actors allowed to us KATHORNOI SHOES: platform shoes - often used for actors playing royalty
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