Carla Kurt/smartscion humanities resources/greek_theater_research

Your research is to be divided into the topics below. Be sure to include the URL and relevant captions with each item you copy and paste from a site. (note - Greek terms are transliterated, that is, they are written using the Roman/English alphabet rather than the Greek alphabet; therefore, you may find variant spellings for the same words.)

I. Early development of Greek theater

A. Cult of Dionysus - vocabulary includes:

Dionysus
maenads
ecstasis
hysteria
catharsis
satyr and satyr play
dithyram
tragoidia

B. The Great Dionysia

C. Pisistratus (person)

D. Thespis (person)

E. date 534 B.C.

II. Definition of tragedy - highlights from Aristotle's definition of tragedy in his Poetics, especially those discussing the nature of the tragic hero, his "fall" and audience reaction

Vocabulary includes:

hamartia
catharsis
hubris
peripetaeia
the "unities"

III. The Greek Theater - Please include labeled diagram of the architectural structure of the ancient Greek theater. Vocabulary includes:

orchestra
thymeli
prosckenion
skene/scene
parodoi
logeion
diazma
kiolon
eisodoi
ekkyklema
mechane/deus ex machina
choregoi
cavea
edolia

IV. Format of a Greek Tragedy - Topics include:

organization of scenes
use of language
information about actors, sets, costumes and masks (vocabulary includes hypocrates, kothoroni)

Vocabulary includes:

agon
proagon
strophe
antisptrophe
chorus
choryphaeus
parados
stasimon

V. Important Greek Playwrights - For each, list dates, special contribution(s) to the development of Greek drama and a very brief statement of plot for the plays listed.

A. Aeschylus -

The Orestia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Prometheus Bound

B. Sophocles -

The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

C. Euripides -

Medea
Iphigenia in Aulis
The Trojan Women
Electra

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	Ancient Greek Theater Research Your research is to be divided into the topics below. Be sure to include the URL and relevant captions with each item you copy and paste from a site. (note - Greek terms are transliterated, that is, they are written using the Roman/English alphabet rather than the Greek alphabet; therefore, you may find variant spellings for the same words.) I. Early development of Greek theater A. Cult of Dionysus - vocabulary includes: Dionysus maenads ecstasis hysteria catharsis satyr and satyr play dithyram tragoidia B. The Great Dionysia C. Pisistratus (person) D. Thespis (person) E. date 534 B.C. II. Definition of tragedy - highlights from Aristotle's definition of tragedy in his Poetics, especially those discussing the nature of the tragic hero, his "fall" and audience reaction Vocabulary includes: hamartia catharsis hubris peripetaeia the "unities" III. The Greek Theater - Please include labeled diagram of the architectural structure of the ancient Greek theater. Vocabulary includes: orchestra thymeli prosckenion skene/scene parodoi logeion diazma kiolon eisodoi ekkyklema mechane/deus ex machina choregoi cavea edolia IV. Format of a Greek Tragedy - Topics include: organization of scenes use of language information about actors, sets, costumes and masks (vocabulary includes hypocrates, kothoroni) Vocabulary includes: agon proagon strophe antisptrophe chorus choryphaeus parados stasimon V. Important Greek Playwrights - For each, list dates, special contribution(s) to the development of Greek drama and a very brief statement of plot for the plays listed. A. Aeschylus - The Orestia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides Prometheus Bound B. Sophocles - The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone C. Euripides - Medea Iphigenia in Aulis The Trojan Women Electra Return to lesson