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Title: Greek Theater


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Greek Theater
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Dionysus
  • Greek God of Wine and Harvest
  • Greek theater originally celebrated him
  • People attended yearly festivals honoring
    Dionysus (about 15,000)

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Thespis
  • 1st know Greek actor
  • Actors today are call Thespians in his honor

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Greek Theater
  • Actors change roles by changing their masks
  • In Greek drama the function of the orchestra is
    were the chorus of man and boys performed
  • Greek build their theaters on hillsides.
  • The seating was call theatrons.
  • In Greek drama the chorus told the story.

Theatrons
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Types of Greek plays
  • Tragedies character suffering a disastrous end
  • Comedies dramas with happy endings
  • Satire plays that made fun of great legends

Sad
Happy
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Aristotle
  • 1st know literary critic
  • Wrote a book about theater call The Poetics

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Skene
  • Small building behind the orchestra
  • Front of the skene was used for scenery
  • Back of the skene was used to change the masks.

Skene
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Sophocles
  • Name means wise and honored one.
  • Two things Sophocles won prizes as a young man
    were wrestling and music
  • Sophocles teacher was Aeschules
  • Sophocles wrote 120 plays
  • Sophocles died at the age of 90

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Sophocles change Greek theater
  • Increased the size of the chorus from 12 to 15
  • Used 3 actors instead of two

Sophocles changes the plays by
Plays had better structure plays More
believable characters in the plays Plays were
more realistic
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