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Greek Tragedy: Background & Æschylus' Career

Delve into the history of Greek Tragedy, exploring The House of Atreus, key developments, and the influential career of Æschylus in the 5th century. Learn about the structure, festivals, and significant plays of this ancient theatrical genre.

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Greek Tragedy: Background & Æschylus' Career

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  1. Greek Tragedy Background Information The Career of Æschylus The House of Atreus

  2. Development of Greek Tragedy • Dithyramb and Satyrika • Strophic choral poetry • Associated c. Dionysiac worship • Originated in Corinth ca. 600 B.C. • Thespis • Probably NOT the creator of tragedy • Perhaps introduced the prologue and speech • Æschylus: introduced the 2nd actor • Sophocles introduced the 3rd actor

  3. Greek Tragedy in the 5th Century • Location • Theater of Dionysus in Athens • Syracuse • Setting • Festivals in Attica • City Dionysia • Rural Dionysia • Lenæa • Competition

  4. Athenian Acropolis and Environs

  5. Theater of Dionysus

  6. Theatre at Syracuse

  7. Theatre Plan • 1. Orchestra • 2. Eisodoi • 3. Skene • 4. Skene building • 5. Cavea

  8. Chorus 12-15 Members Masked Dancing Strophic Songs (c. antistrophes) Characters Stasimon vs. Parodos Actors (also masked) Skene Mechane Ekkyklema The Tragic Machinery

  9. Skene, Mechane, and Ekkyklema

  10. Masks

  11. The Greater Dionysia • 3 Tragedians • 12 Plays • Satyr Plays • Choregia/Choregos (liturgies) • Comedy • Ritual

  12. Æschylus’ Career • Ca. 525: Born in Eleusis • 499: First Tragic Production • 490: Marathon • 484: First Victory • 480: Salamis • 472: Persians (Pericles is choregos) • 467: Seven against Thebes • ???: Suppliants • 458: Oresteia • ca. 457: Goes to Sicily • 456?: Prometheus Bound • 456/5: Dies

  13. 1st Generation Names Pelops Hippodameia Oinomaos Myrtilos Events The Race 2nd Generation Names Atreus Aërope Thyestes Events The Seduction The Ram The Feast The House of Atreus

  14. Agamemnon Menelaos Clytemnestra Orestes Electra Iphigeneia Ægisthos Events Important to Agamemnon The Feast of Thyestes The Blood Curse The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia at Aulis The Trojan War The House of Atreus3rd Generation

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