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Greek Tragedy. Background Information The Career of Æschylus The House of Atreus. 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
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Greek Tragedy Background Information The Career of Æschylus The House of Atreus
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
Greek Tragedy in the 5th Century • Location • Theater of Dionysus in Athens • Syracuse • Setting • Festivals in Attica • City Dionysia • Rural Dionysia • Lenæa • Competition
Theatre Plan • 1. Orchestra • 2. Eisodoi • 3. Skene • 4. Skene building • 5. Cavea
Chorus 12-15 Members Masked Dancing Strophic Songs (c. antistrophes) Characters Stasimon vs. Parodos Actors (also masked) Skene Mechane Ekkyklema The Tragic Machinery
The Greater Dionysia • 3 Tragedians • 12 Plays • Satyr Plays • Choregia/Choregos (liturgies) • Comedy • Ritual
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
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
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