Midterm Flashcards
(27 cards)
What is drama?
The imitation of actions (memisis)
What states that theater is rooted in rituals to honor Dionysus?
Aristotle’s Poetics
What is the theory that drama evolved from ancient Greek and Egyptian rituals?
Ritual Origin theory
What are the 7 primary ingredients of drama?
PC-DS-MMT:
Plot, Characterization, Dialogue, Setting, Movement, Music, and Theme
When did Thespis become the first recognized actor?
534 BCE
What is Tragōidia?
“goat song”, basis for the word tragedy
Who were the three tragedians of Greek drama?
SEA:
Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides
Who wrote Oedipus Rex?
Sophocles
Who wrote Agamemnon?
Aeschylus
Who wrote Medea?
Euripides
What is “God from the Machine”?
Deux ex Machina
What is the characteristic of Old Greek Comedy?
exuberant and high-spirited satire
When did New Comedy emerge?
Between 4th and 3rd century BCE
What is the characteristic of New Comedy?
witty and intellectually engaging
What is often thought of as the first High Comedy?
New Comedy
Who were the Dionysiakoi Technitai?
A troop of entertainers (similar to a circus) that traveled around Greece performing for the both commoners and nobility
When did the Hellenistic Period start, and when did it end?
From the death of Alexander the Great until the rise of the Roman Empire
When did the Roman Empire begin?
509 BCE
What did Roman theatre heavily depend on?
Greek drama
Who were Plautus and Terence?
Masters of Roman comedy, considered to be the greatest Roman dramatists
Who was Lucius Annaeus Seneca?
Seneca the Younger, a Roman philosopher and tragedian
Name the characters of Atellan Farce.
MDBP:
Maccus, the clown, Bucco, the stupid fat clown, Pappus, the old man, Dossennus, the hunchbacked slave
Who was the best known of the Greek comic playwrights?
Aristophanes
When did the Roman Empire split? What were the two splits?
330 CE
The western half was centered in Rome, and followed Roman Catholicism. The eastern half was centered in Constantinople and followed Eastern Orthodoxy.
