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As tragedy developed, the actors began to interact more with each other, and the role of the chorus became smaller. [6]" Scodell notes that: Scodell notes that: The Greek word for “actor” is hypocrites , which means “answerer” or “interpreter,” but the word cannot tell us anything about tragedy’s origins, since we do not know when ...
The Origins and Early Forms of Greek Tragedy, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1965. The Origins of ΤΡΑΓΩΙΔΙΑ, Hermes 85, 1957, pp. 17–46. Flickinger, Roy Caston, The Greek theater and its drama, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1918; Foley, Helene, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2001.
As a youth, Aeschylus worked at a vineyard until, according to the 2nd-century AD geographer Pausanias, the god Dionysus visited him in his sleep and commanded him to turn his attention to the nascent art of tragedy. [13] As soon as he woke, he began to write a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was 26 years old.
Antigone (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles in (or before) 441 BC and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus of the same year. It is thought to be the second-oldest surviving play of Sophocles, preceded by Ajax, which was written around the same period.
Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid. The ancient Greeks believed that Troy was located near the Dardanelles and that the Trojan War was a historical event of the 13th or 12th century BC.
Many Achaean heroes did not return to their homes, but died or founded colonies outside the Greek mainland. The most famous returns are those of Odysseus, whose wanderings are narrated in the Odyssey, and Agamemnon, whose murder at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra was portrayed in Greek tragedy.
According to tradition, the first performance of tragedy at the Dionysia was by the playwright and actor Thespis (from whom we take the word "thespian") in 534 BC. His award was reportedly a goat, a common symbol for Dionysus, and this "prize" possibly suggests the origin of the word "tragedy" (which means "goat-song").
Parabasis: In Classical Greek comedy, parabasis is 'a speech in which the chorus comes forward and addresses the audience'. A parabasis is not featured in Lysistrata . Most plays have a second parabasis near the end, and a feature akin to a parabasis is used in this play as a replacement, however it comprises exclusively two songs (strophe and ...