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Greek Literature. [Image source: http://www.chania.gr/eventsimages/sum2000_perses1.jpg]. Greek theatre grew out of celebrations honoring Dionysius. [Image source: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Classics/roman_provinces/mosaics%20of%20roman%20africa/Cortege%20Dionysus.JPG]. Greek Religion.
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Greek Literature [Image source: http://www.chania.gr/eventsimages/sum2000_perses1.jpg]
Greek theatre grew out of celebrations honoring Dionysius. [Image source: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/Classics/roman_provinces/mosaics%20of%20roman%20africa/Cortege%20Dionysus.JPG]
Greek Religion Drama Poetry “deed; to do”
Theatres were built into hillsides utilizingthe natural acoustics of the landscape. [Image source: http://www.bluejeansplace.com/images/Img133.gif]
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An all-male casts performed before an all-male audience on a stage devoid of scenery.
Only three actors portrayed all of the major characters, changing masks as they changed roles. [Image source: http://www.hccy.cg.catholic.edu.au/home/pamela_cohen/greekdrama/maskscomedytragedy.gif] The remaining of the actors formed the chorus.
Greek Religion Drama Poetry Tragedy Comedy From tragoidia (“goat-song”). From komoidia (“to revel; sing”).
Tragedies were the earliest Greek dramas, focusing on a major character flaw that usually resulted in disaster. [Image source: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/users/vfolkenflik/VRF%20Sources/antigone-creon%20www.odu.edu.jpg]
Tragedies were inspired by the myths contained in the Iliad and the Odyssey. [Image source: http://www.sitevip.net/troy/images/homeimg.jpg]
Aeschylus,the “father of Greek Tragedy”, authored The Orestia and Agamemnon. [Image source: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Portraits/Art/Aeschylus.jpg]
His plays show the consequences of one’s deeds will carry down in generations. [Image source: http://www.scultura.com/ArtTimes/arttimes%2Cnovember2.html
Orestia being pursued by the Furies. [Image source: http://www.trinity.edu/cbrown/huma/images/bouguereau_1862_furies-small.jpg]
Aegisthos killing Agamemnon. [Image source: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/CGPrograms/Dict/image/agamemnonLINC.jpg]
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Sophocles is credited with writing 123 plays, the most-famous one being Œdipus Rex. [Image source: http://www.ironorchid.com/clipart/persons/images/Sophocles.jpg]
His plays accepted human suffering as unavoidable and stressed human courage and compassion. [Image source: http://www.skidmore.edu/fye/bat/oedipus-sphinx.jpg]
Euripides is best-remembered for Medea and The Trojan Women – plays that focused on human qualities that bring disaster on to themselves. [Image source: http://www.crystalinks.com/euripides.jpg]
Greek Religion Drama Poetry Tragedy Comedy
Aristophanes is the best-known comedy playwright. [Image source: http://dienekes.angeltowns.net/pictures/ancientgreekmen/aristophanes.JPG]
Plays such as The Birds and The Clouds, ridiculed people, ideas, and social customs. [Image source: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~cplatter/Images/les_oiseaux.jpg]
Greek Religion Drama Poetry Epic Lyric Tragedy Comedy From epikos (“word; speech; poem”).
The best-known examples of epic poetry from ancient Greece are TheIliad and The Odyssey, composed by Homer. [Image source: http://static.flickr.com/22/34257894_820b438f88_m.jpg]
Lyric poetry expressesemotions and thoughts. [Image source: http://www.biblepainting.com/david/david3.jpg]
The most-famous Greek poetess was Sapho [Image source: http://www.chateauversailles.fr/images/poeme-lyrique-222.jpg]
Sappho and Phaon. [Image source: http://www.biblepainting.com/david/]
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