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Anagnorisis

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Aha moment

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Episode

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Point in Greek tragedy that falls between two chorus songs

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Pathos

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Feeling of sympothy in audience

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Hubris

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Excessive self-confidence

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Catharsis

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Emotional cleansing

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Hamartia

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Tragic flaw

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Miasma

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Difficulty to breathe in unwholesome atmosphere

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Sated

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Satisfy (a desire or appetite)

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Clairvoyant

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A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future

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Autocratic

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Ruling with absolute power

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Deference

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Humble submission and respect

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Transgress

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Go beyond the bounds of/ crossing the line

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Piety

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The quality of being religious or reverent

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Vigil

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Keeping awake during the night

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Calamity

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A disaster

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Impasse

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Narrow road, only one way in or out

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Edict

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Official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority

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Desolate

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Alone and without hope

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Regicide

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Act of murdering a king

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Pestilence

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A fatal epidemic disease

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All the plays in Ancient Greece were produced in

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Athens

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Two ways we know about these plays are through

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Actual text and ancient sources

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How many plays survived

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30

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Plays honored the god

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What was the prize for winning playwrite
Your name would be inscribed in stone
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Three types of drama
Tragedy, comedy, satyr
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Tragedy
Upper class / beautiful masks
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Comedy
Lower class / ugly masks
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Satyr
Rude plays / comic relief
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What is a satyr
A creature that was half man half goat | Promiscuous behavior
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Three tragedians
Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides (lived in 5th century B.C.)
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Traditional Greek theater was
Open air (no roof)
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Masks were worn by actors because
It was part of the religious ritual and it allowed actors to play different parts
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The chorus was for
Fun and providing the perspective of the community
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Greek tragedy is fundementally
Political because of the interaction between us and he top characters
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Greek tragedy transcends culture and time because of its
Universal themes
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We still have difficulty with our
Relationships
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We still have to make
Difficult decisions
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We still have to deal with the
Unfairness of the universe
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The Greek philosopher that cake up with the formula for a tragic hero
Aristotle
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The formula is
Heroes have to be good but also make mistakes
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Strongest metaphor in Greek tragedy is
The sun
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Play starts with
Prologue and then next the chorus
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The action of a play takes place within
A day
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Plays allow us to
Reflect on our own lives
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Oedipus means
Swollen feet
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Rex means
King
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Two cities in story
Corinth and Thebes
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Oedipus’s birth parents
Laius and Jacosta
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Oedipus’s adopted parents
Polybus and merope
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Creon
Jacostas brother
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Tiresias
Blind prophet
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The oedipus stories are
Not in order
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Why did the Greeks attend watching these plays if they already knew the story
To see how the events unfolded, extraordinary writing
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Sophocles wrote how many plays and how many survived?
123, only 7 survived
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Characteristics of the protagonist
Person of noble birth and stature, has a flaw, becomes isolated, their fall is usually not their fault
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Hubris
Excessive pride
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Chorus consists of
12-15 masked people
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Crossroads symbolize
Choice | Three way: past present future

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